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Fine Art 2

Frozen Roses is a series of personal work using metaphor, representation and symbolism. The work is about an emotional journey.

Throughout Christian history, the rose has represented beauty, spring and love. The rose also represents the fleetness of time and infers death and the next world. A white rose is synonomous with beauty, purity and innocence.

This work is of a single white rose frozen in water over many months. Throughout this period, the rose remains preserved and unaltered. Feelings and perceptions become frozen and trapped within time - in a sense they are too preserved.

As the ice melts, the rose changes in colour, appearance and texture. This represents the possibility of a shift of view, perception or feeling. There is an unlocking of emotions.

At the final stage, the rose is refrozen with a changed image: the petals have changed in texture and colour. They are no longer white but take on a deep gold, and sunshine streams onto the rose. This represents a change - a shift in attitude, feeling, or release; an ending.

Influences include Robert Mapplethorpe, Georgia O'Keefe and Irving Penn.