Sam Taylor is one of the artists who
has presented decay in still life in another way. This is why I am interested
in her and her work. Her interview with ARTPULSE magazine she said” I am
definitely interested in unveiling the pain, but not in a way where you are
looking at something so bleak and dark that it almost puts you on outside of
it. I like to look at things in sort of simplest and most moments”.
Sam Taylor,
Still Life, 2001, 35mm film
Her view in Still life took her
nowhere near as long as the Dutch masters took to paint their paintings or like
Caravaggio’s painting from sixteen to seventeen, which that artists are still
dealing with exactly the same thought process. But it did take time to film and
to work with it to get myself more involved in the historical aspect of art and
then contemporizing it by including the disposable plastic pen, in one hand its
so common from our society today, and kind of, well, not meaningless, but as
set against something so classical and beautiful, but in my view in other hand
biologically, material of pen is Plastic, which needs average takes about 300
years to stare decomposing in nature. However all of them say something
significant about the passage of times.
Sam Taylor, A
Little Death, 2002, 35mm film
In
“A Little Death” she was looking at the subject matter from a completely different
perspective. Taylor drive one way to take the idea one step further by bringing
an animal specifically, which in history is the symbol of life and virility as
well. As she said” I guess I didn’t quite know what to expect when I was
filming it, and then when I put it in front of me, as it was how different it
was from Still Life again, but also made it come alive again. The deathly heavy
scenario came to life again, and was more violent.“
She also quoted “Still Life conveyed a
grace in the decay but with A Little Death it was not only violent, but
shocking violent. The
transformation of life into death repeating itself over and over is so
frightful.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIzXWGcb3u0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIl9rO9sURE&feature=fvwrel
http://artpulsemagazine.com
http://www.all-science-fair-projects.com
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