About The Work
"I made this photograph during the summer of 2010 in the wrong light for a photograph—in the brightest noon sun. The 'surface' is an old outdoor table into which my cousin had many years prior inserted a mirror. On the table are a piece of seaweed and two melon skins from breakfast. Somehow the symmetry of those skins reminded me of photographs of bombs dropping from planes in World War II. The artist's hand literally hovers above the table; we can see it as we see the shadow of a plane as we fly across the earth. I think of that war quite often, in particular the nuclear attacks on Japan, as my grandfather, a surgeon, performed reconstructive surgeries in the 1950s on victims of the Hiroshima attack. The title, The Bomb (Also) is a Flower was taken, and slightly altered, from one of my favorite poems of William Carlos Williams, "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower," which he wrote toward the end of his life. The poem talks of the end of love, and perhaps its rebirth. Of regret, and fear, and hell, and flowers amid the ruins nonetheless. My work—in particular this series, As A Real House—has always been influenced by poetry and text and asks questions without necessarily providing answers, as a poem might."
Artist Statement courtesy of Aperture Foundation
About Sarah Palmer
Photograph
22.00 x 27.00 in
55.9 x 68.6 cm
Signed and numbered by the artist
About The Work
"I made this photograph during the summer of 2010 in the wrong light for a photograph—in the brightest noon sun. The 'surface' is an old outdoor table into which my cousin had many years prior inserted a mirror. On the table are a piece of seaweed and two melon skins from breakfast. Somehow the symmetry of those skins reminded me of photographs of bombs dropping from planes in World War II. The artist's hand literally hovers above the table; we can see it as we see the shadow of a plane as we fly across the earth. I think of that war quite often, in particular the nuclear attacks on Japan, as my grandfather, a surgeon, performed reconstructive surgeries in the 1950s on victims of the Hiroshima attack. The title, The Bomb (Also) is a Flower was taken, and slightly altered, from one of my favorite poems of William Carlos Williams, "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower," which he wrote toward the end of his life. The poem talks of the end of love, and perhaps its rebirth. Of regret, and fear, and hell, and flowers amid the ruins nonetheless. My work—in particular this series, As A Real House—has always been influenced by poetry and text and asks questions without necessarily providing answers, as a poem might."
Artist Statement courtesy of Aperture Foundation
About Sarah Palmer
- Paper Size: 22 x 27 inches Image Size: 20 x 25 inches
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