house of o'dwyer 
 artist + curator + writer 

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Everything is Art,

and everything we do is Art.

Art is to do.

Everything around the world and beyond

is one collective installation.

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The Flower series documents the use people put flowers to

in public spaces and social precincts. 

Often of course they commemerate the tradgedy of death.

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Flowers have been part of funeral rites for thousands of years. 

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Flowers commemorate death but also other transformations.

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Flowers represent beauty and sensual delight

as well as lifes brevity.

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Flowers is a meditation on the work of

Jan Brueghel the younger, Chardin, Manet,

Warhol and Mapplethorpe.

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A tradition of flower painting belongs to the world of science also, and combines careful observation and classification.

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I collect, examine, classify this element of human activity.

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The aesthetic of these photographs is one of on the run,

in combat, embedded, fleeing from death..

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Flowers, symbolism and death.

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