How would you show that symbolically in a photo? A friend asked me what I thought. She's going to a workshop in April and has to create some photos that express this idea. She wants to do more than go to the Domes and take flower photos.
Flowers are used to express feelings in relationships; that's very important. Isn't there a famous photo from the sixties of a yellow daisy sticking out of the end of a gun? What do flowers symbolize? love, friendship, romance, peace, comfort; they make an environment smell better and feel homey. They might express hope as in a flower growing after a forest fire or in a war zone. These ideas are a bit cliche though. We can do better.
Now that I think of it. I used a plastic plant last year as a symbol of hope for the coming spring in a photo essay I did for my advanced photo class at UW-M. But that's not really relating to her subject.
How did flowers, so seemingly passive, cause a shift in the world? A flower might be a symbol for Jesus, Christianity or any religion. A flower might be seen as evil, a weed that has spread over the world, choking out native plants and aiding pollution.
Flowers are used in logos to show agriculture, green concerned organizations. Women love flowers. They come in every color. Florists Web sites would be able to tell you what certain flowers mean. Sunflowers are grown as a crop in Wisconsin.
Send in your brainstorming ideas, and I'll pass them along to her.
Monday, February 23, 2009
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