We like to whine and complain that we’re so busy, we have no time for fun anymore, wah wah wah! I know I’m guilty. But the truth is we do have time. We just don’t give it to ourselves. We choose where to place our attention and too many times it is on the things we truly care about the least. In his Exploding Mirrors series, photographer Orly Gersht captures what the camera sees as the mirrored reflections of flower arrangements explode. And what the camera focuses on is truly telling.
As the glass breaks ( electrocuted to the point of explosion ), the camera focuses not on the beautiful arrangements of flowers, modeled after paintings by Jan Brueghel the Elder, but on the surface of the glass itself. The lens picks up what is happening most immediately in front of it. Unlike us, it doesn’t choose its focus. It can’t block out the chaos in the foreground to focus on the beauty in the background. What really strikes me is that it is that false surface that changes– the beauty remains unchanged. Yet the camera’s capture of the exploding surface fragments and destroys it. Ignore that surface. The good stuff is safe and waiting.
To see more of Ori Gersht‘s work, please visit CRG Gallery’s website.
All images via the CRG Gallery website. Artist found via DesignMilk.
