BIRTHDAY BOUQUET
“It’s life that completed this work.”
I gave my full expression of the colour of lives through throwing the most vibrant paint on the canvas. The thing I tried to capture was not only about a still life, rather I was trying to find myself at the moment I was creating. Thus, the portrait recorded me and links to the bouquet in colours.
— Artist’s Brief
I had inspirations from the lives of the bouquet. Every flower seems to fade so quickly in time they had. I wanted to photograph them through my lens. It forms the concept of realism but I also see the colours of lives and presence. They are very brilliant and eager to be shown. I took a chance scribbled fluorescent colours on the canvas. It is part of realism I believe, just from the internal of lives.
Still life painting
oil on canvas
24” x 36”
2025 (Duration: 3 Days)
Mao Zhixuan