I believe that Ori’s work is going to be very useful to me in my practice, I have always been very interested in science and mathematics and sort of wish I had gone into something to do with these subjects, however I had a very rough time during my A-level Maths and only got a D which brought me down a fair amount both physically and mentally. But, from watching Ori’s presentation on his work and how he is inspired by such amazing people of these types of fields, it has made me realize that I can, if I wanted, bring these subjects into my photography. I really do think his talk is going to change my outlook on photography and help me realize that I can do literally anything with this subject,.
Ori’s work is very highly influenced by different classical paintings and different era’s of art and science. He began his presentation by referring to Juan Sanchez Cotan’s work, a Spanish painter, he was interested in creating an equilibrium out of this concrete structure and so Ori wanted to recreate this idea, he stated that he took the liberty to change some of the objects used, I found this quite funny, not too sure why, from this piece of work, he create a short film and honestly, I found it to be so beautiful and though provoking. I feel very connected to this work, especially with this project and how it relates to the still lives from this era, but also using a video as a form of showing the still lives in movement, this is almost exactly what i am doing, except in my case, each frame is still a still life, however when put together and moved quickly it will create a short animation, so the content of the frames are not moving, however the physical image will be.
He seems to be very interested in symbolism and showing different intense emotions through his work; anger, love, brutality.
It is clear that he is strongly influenced by history, science and the movement of time. Through the talk, I could see that he puts a lot of thought into the concept of each painting and is really moved by each and every aspect.
He created a piece of work called ‘On reflection’ which was inspired by Jan Brueghel the Elder and his 17th century paintings which are show below.
Seeing his work made me realize just how much I can do with my own practice, and how I can bring so much meaning into each and every shot that I take, he has helped me to form meaning and a deeper understanding into my work and the images I have currently, but also how things do not have to be literal or straight forward, they can be a lot more complex and exciting which allows people to create their own visual concept of things.