honorable mention
Niki Berg united states
title
Continuum - The Flowers
I begin each day with curiosity as I visit the flowers in my studio. I notice the overnight changes and begin a quiet focused contemplation before and during photographing. The process is pure pleasure. They have made subtle shifts. Some still have vibrant vivid color, others retaining their sensuous curves and softness. Lyrical thoughts and feelings of strength and eros cross my mind. Still others are beginning to look frail, a thinning like tissue paper.
The flowers and I share an unspoken dialogue, one which brings me to a place of deeper knowing about time passing and the grace of transition.
This continuous movement of all things living and changing fills me once again with the wonder of life’s journey.
Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally in solo and group shows.
Her work has been published in books, catalogues and monographs including “In Their Mothers’ Eyes,” “Sacred Connections, Stories of Adoption”, “A Gate Unfastened” and “Mothers and Daughters.”
She was invited to participate in Art Cart, Saving the Legacy, an intergenerational art project sponsored by the Research center for Arts and Culture, originally at Columbia University and now at the National center for Creative Aging, to document the work of the elder artists with the help of the graduate students in the arts, health and aging.
Currently, she is watching flowers everyday as they age, quietly observing and photographing the grace of these transitions. The beauty of change in all living things fills me with the wonder of life’s journey and her own process of aging.
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entry description
I was told that my first spoken word was flower.I begin each day with curiosity as I visit the flowers in my studio. I notice the overnight changes and begin a quiet focused contemplation before and during photographing. The process is pure pleasure. They have made subtle shifts. Some still have vibrant vivid color, others retaining their sensuous curves and softness. Lyrical thoughts and feelings of strength and eros cross my mind. Still others are beginning to look frail, a thinning like tissue paper.
The flowers and I share an unspoken dialogue, one which brings me to a place of deeper knowing about time passing and the grace of transition.
This continuous movement of all things living and changing fills me once again with the wonder of life’s journey.
about the photographer
Niki Berg is an artist living and working in New York.Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally in solo and group shows.
Her work has been published in books, catalogues and monographs including “In Their Mothers’ Eyes,” “Sacred Connections, Stories of Adoption”, “A Gate Unfastened” and “Mothers and Daughters.”
She was invited to participate in Art Cart, Saving the Legacy, an intergenerational art project sponsored by the Research center for Arts and Culture, originally at Columbia University and now at the National center for Creative Aging, to document the work of the elder artists with the help of the graduate students in the arts, health and aging.
Currently, she is watching flowers everyday as they age, quietly observing and photographing the grace of these transitions. The beauty of change in all living things fills me with the wonder of life’s journey and her own process of aging.
back to gallery