Sun.Flower started as large-scale sculpture relief made of black plastic garbage bags. The artist pulled, stretched and crumpled the bags on a wall in an abstract, expressionist way and then shone a coloured light onto them. He then took photographs of these installations, cut them up digitally and used fragments of them to create symmetrical/kaleidoscopic abstractions. The image was then printed on matt fine art paper which made it look painted in a very detailed way.
This work is literally and metaphorically multifaceted. It combines a narrative of transforming a mundane, prosaic garbage bag into a visual theatre, the role of photography in achieving such visual effect and a whole array of aesthetic references starting from ancient symbols and mandalas, through Arab lattice works, the Baroque and Rococo and ending on camp and Sci-Fi. It includes themes of spirituality, philosophy, ecology, mythology and religion as well as vocabulary of waste and pollution and that of universal truths. Sun.Flower puts photography as a fine art medium in a new and original light and combines it with languages of other mediums- sculpture, installation and painting.