Orchids are hard to draw or
paint.
The ‘Paint Action’ cycle is quite extraordinary. A Swiss artist has modelled paint by natural forces, ie gravity, creating a new kind of orchid - if only for a split second.
Fill a tank was several layers
of different colours of liquid paint with the top layer being either black or
white. Then, throw a sphere into the paint. As the falling object splashes into
the tank, the paint is forced upwards, shaping the individual layers of paint
into a blossom-like structure. Hence ‘orchid’.
Artist Fabian Oefner photographs
the result, using high-speed devices, capturing structures of great elegance,
which appear only for a fraction of a second before disappearing beneath the
surface again.
Orchid blooms last for months, and these for no time at all. Both are exquisite.
By Pamela Kelt
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