If it's broken, it's broken. What's perfect?

I don't know if you have such a habit. Anyway, Paeonia lactiflora liked to keep the withered petals and carefully clip them into the book, reluctant to throw them away. Because even if I see the faded petals, they can also remind people of their once delicate and beautiful appearance and the good mood they once brought to me.

Beauty is fleeting, can you leave us anything after the flowers are gone? Do you remember what they looked like when they passed away? Today, let's talk about this topic.

The protagonist of the topic, Jon Shireman, a photographer from New York, did an experiment: freeze the flowers, then find a way to shatter them, and then use the camera to record the broken flowers.

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Broken flowers in the lens

We are used to recognizing flowers in the context of traditional still life painting, but the talent of photographers seems to be to "make trouble". They like to break out of routine, explore the aesthetics behind things, and capture "defamiliarization" freeze moments with their cameras.

Like this.

Like this

Or like this.

This is the work of photographer Jon Shireman, who photographed the comparison before and after the flowers were shattered.

We are used to the decline and withering of flowers, but seldom see them broken. The flower itself is soft and tough, and even if you rub it on the palm of your hand, the petals will only fade and curl up.

It is obviously not easy to turn flowers into colorful crumbs in an instant. The first thing to do is to make them "absolutely vulnerable".

This group of works, called "Shattered Flowe", is currently the most popular work of Jon Shireman.

How to make flowers "absolutely fragile"? The answer is liquid nitrogen. Yes, that's the liquid that freezes people quickly.

Jon Shireman freezes the collected flowers with liquid nitrogen, places them in a spring container, and then uses the impact of the high-speed movement of the spring to shatter the flowers. For example, Lily.

The English name of lily is Lily.

Sounds like an innocent little girl.

The white petals make her look like a lovely porcelain doll.

And now her petals are broken.

It's like a piece of porcelain after a porcelain doll is broken.

We seemed to hear her landing sound of "bba ng" across the screen.

The grape hyacinth is quiet and elegant and likes to be warm and cool.

Her flowers are usually small and fragrant.

Will bloom like a string of grapes.

And now, her stem is broken into pieces.

The flowers became one by one.

From a distance, it looks like a pop painting of clothes.

This kind of poetic experiment extracted from science and technology is very interesting to Jon Shireman himself.

The mosaic of fragments and fragments expresses people's fascination with imperfection and aesthetics.

This idea has also been recognized abroad, and "Shattered Flowers" has been used by many fashion brands in clothing design.

Carolina Herrera Spring 2015

Akrisofficial broken flower series

Don't say, it's kind of good to see.

But not everyone can accept the artificial destruction of flowers, and most people prefer to see a sense of perfection rather than a different kind of incomplete beauty.

Jon Shireman, who is obsessed with the "broken aesthetics", has also created another set of broken works, the broken object is glass.

The glass was broken in a variety of backgrounds and lights

It quietly conveys a sense of dynamics.

If the last group of flowers broke into dregs

So, this group of glass broke into a flower.

Compared with the two groups of works, there is a strong contrast of beauty.

As a photographic artist

Jon Shireman must maintain creative desire and curiosity

He also took a group of pictures of the wilting process of flowers.

Maybe that's why he started to want to know.

What kind of visual effect is it like after the perfect appearance is broken?

Maybe it's the mournful beauty that went up in smoke.

He recorded it so that more people could see it.

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