Source work:
0806/85
Roger Fry (1866-1934)
Still Life with Omega Flowers
1919
Oil on canvas
Flowers out of Water - David Buchler
David Buchler (b.1982)
Flowers out of Water
Screenprint & collage
R1 800
The starting point for this piece was my interest in Fry's paper flowers as a symbol of mortality and fragility. Did he paint paper flowers because of their inability to decay and die? I have, in turn, cut my own paper flowers out of old sympathy cards; expressions themselves of loss - reminders that we are not immortal. The creation of flowers cut from these cards gives them a life beyond the eventual decay - creating something much like art that will exist beyond the self.
The poem by Louise Buchler is a hopeful expression alluding to the necessity to live despite our inevitable demise. Fry's year of birth and death have been printed at the bottom corner of each page.