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Artist Dolores Kiriacon
Palm Beach Gardens, Florida USA
Wilting Lily IV
Fine Art Photography
Artist Statement
As a fine artist with a background in painting, printmaking, and sculpture, I now use photography as a source of ideas and a tool to create. My photographs are portraits/still lifes of nature’s forms, from flowers, dried leaves, twigs, to the bark of trees in their various stages of growth and natural decline. I have been collecting and photographing these natural forms for quite some time and I am always looking for that special form of nature that inspires me. The camera brings out qualities that one cannot see with the naked eye. When composing and taking these photographs the challenge is to create exciting and interesting compositions to entice the viewer to see these images in a new and different way. They created a new life of their own through the lens of my camera.
Wilting Lily IV – is the second stage in the life cycle of the lily, being wilted. I began taking photos of lilies while walking around a lake each morning with my dog. These lilies grow to about two feet tall between pointed leaves and are planted in mulch. I took hundreds of photos of the lilies in all their stages of growth during a period of months. They bloom each day, wilt fairly quickly then become completely wilted. While editing and selecting the lilies I begin by isolating the lily and eliminating all unnecessary elements. This leaves the lily with all its detail isolated in a black background. I saw beauty in the lily in its decline of being wilted now beautiful in a new and different way.
For each group of new photographs I like to create a series from four, six or eight different compositions so that I have one, two or a group of photographs that work well together. All images are limited editions, signed and numbered, printed on archival smooth cotton paper.
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