Ted O’Donnell + Vicki Lee: IS./WET

Overview

Artist Vicki Lee and photographer Ted O'Donnell celebrate life's sensuality by giving flowers the Nickelodeon slime treatment with bright-hued paints in IS./WET, their new artistic collaboration showing at Sun Studios.

Oozing and dripping, the motion of the paint was painstakingly captured by a combination of O'Donnell's lighting mastery and Lee's carefully timed pouring. The artists' Tumblr has stop-motion videos showing the process. It would be tempting to watch it all happen in slo-mo, so mesmerising is the trail of liquid colour over petals.

What is the message and mood of these images? The symbology of flowers ranges from the appearance of fragility and beauty to the simple fact that we all live and grow. The addition of glossy pigments only heightens the sense of relish the artists take in presenting these living sculptures, pinned by the camera in a moment of flux. The key word is "vitality".