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Visual Art & Photography

via Scotland and Aotearoa New Zealand

The Flower Garden

Abstract blurred photograph of orange and yellow flowers against dark green foliage, with pale blue and pink areas near the top and radiating motion softening the blooms into glowing colour.
Colour Field

The Flower Garden brings together colour photographs of flowers, foliage and garden space made with a mobile phone using intentional camera movement. Some retain the recognisable shape of a bloom, while others loosen into repeated petals, drifting forms and broader fields of colour.

For some works, a magnifying glass was held, tilted and moved in front of the phone camera. It bends, repeats and reflects details, adding another layer of distortion. Combined with camera movement, flowers and surrounding growth stretch, overlap and dissolve across the frame.

Colour carries as much weight as the flowers themselves. Reds flare out of shadow, yellows spread through dense growth, and pale blossoms merge with light. Across the sequence, the garden shifts between close observation, landscape and abstraction.

  • Blurred vertical photograph of a soft pink bloom at the centre of a bright blue‑white field, with fine dark branching lines radiating outward toward the edges through camera movement.
    Subtle Blossom
  • Blurred photograph of pale pink blossoms on dark stems against a bright blue background. One larger flower sits left of centre, with smaller blooms above and repeated motion traces softening the petals and branches.
    Blossoming

  • Blurred photograph of white flower clusters among dense green hedgerow foliage. Several pale blooms resemble crouched bodily forms, while stems and leaves dissolve into layered movement.
    Hedgerow Figures
  • Blurred orange flower against soft blue and green fields, with dark rounded leaves and faint violet traces. The petals dissolve into translucent, watercolour-like washes.
    Watercolour
  • Blurred orange-yellow flowers against deep blue and green foliage. The central bloom forms a bright circular glow, while a second flower arcs across the top, creating a strong spiral sense through repeated motion.
    Spiral Galaxy
  • Vertical abstract photograph of a glowing orange flower against a near-black background. Camera movement blurs its petals into radiating streaks. Curved turquoise-blue shapes, suggesting stems or leaves, rise from the lower edge and pass behind the bloom.
    Orange Glow
  • Blurred pale irises among deep green foliage, with petals repeated into soft spirals and smudged circular traces, creating a drifting, dancing effect against dark shadow.
    Iris Dance

  • Blurred yellow flowers against dark blue-green foliage, with one bright central bloom, repeated petals and sweeping clusters created through camera movement. Fine blue lines curve across the darker background.
    Yellow Flower
  • Vertical abstract photograph of a curved red, brush-like flower against a pale sky. Camera movement repeats the dark flower heads and blurs their fine red filaments into feathery streaks. Dense, shadowed foliage fills the left side.
    Morris Dance

  • Blurred red-orange flowers glowing against dark foliage, with a green band of vegetation, a low distant ridge and pale sky behind them. Camera movement stretches the blooms into soft, flickering forms.
    Mirage

  • Abstract blurred photograph of a dense bush of yellow-green flowers, with clustered blooms and stems stretched into overlapping waves and radiating strokes around darker green central passages.
    Movement in Yellow

  • Blurred close-up of a deep violet flower against very dark foliage, with magenta tones below and pale brown, silver and green stems radiating around it through camera movement.
    Purple Haze

  • Blurred close-up of vivid red geranium flowers with darker maroon centres, a thin green stem extending left, and a soft blue-grey, white and green background.
    Geranium Red
  • Blurred red flower glowing against dark silhouetted foliage, with a darker central core and pale silver-grey sky breaking through the leaves in the upper left.
    Ghost Red

  • Vertical abstract photograph of pale white and pink blossom against a deep blue sky. A large central flower cluster is softened and repeated by spiralling camera movement, creating translucent layers and curling, tentacle-like forms. Smaller blurred blooms appear around the edges.
    Squid Games
  • Abstract close-up in deep red, orange and black, with a bright copper-coloured leaf-like form across the lower centre and softer blurred foliage and highlights surrounding it.
    Copper Leaf

  • Blurred close-up of pale violet and lilac flowers against a bright white sky, with darker purple blooms below and faint green foliage at the edges. Camera movement softens the cluster into layered, hazy forms.
    Lilac Haze

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