Ori Gersht

For the time based artist presentation & response assignment I want to research Ori Gersht. I really love his style, he engages themes of life, death, violence, and beauty. And I really like the contrast of those themes in his work.

I have a few ideas on how I would respond to his work. I want to try to incorporate themes of life, death, violence and beauty in my photographs. I was thinking of photographing a woman with paint and other debris covering her body, the woman would represent life and beauty, and the "dirty" paint would represent decay or death. Time would be represented by the amount of paint increasing. The other idea I had was to buy a bouquet of flowers and photograph them in many different places that you wouldn't normally see flowers; in the street, in a car, in a busy store, the flowers would represent the beauty in life, and seeing the flowers in strange places would be a reminder that everything must die at some point. As time goes on you'll see the flowers start to wilt, get dirty and lose petals.