This photograph is selected from my fine-art project 'Hua'. Hua means flower in Chinese, and refers to beautiful and full-blown life in the metaphor. Through these portrait collages I aim to explore the connection between lives. Life takes different forms but shares the same origin. The life of human beings, in a way, is not different from the life of flowers. To create such connections in an artistic form, I combine elements from trees and flowers with classic portrait photographs.
Suxing Zhang is a Chinese fine-art photographer currently living in Australia. He sees photographs as impressions that involve not only sheer beauty but also a wide range of emotions, and treats facial expressions and postures as the best mediums to deal with complex concepts. His photographs often involve visual metaphors and metonymies to tell stories and express emotions. Experience with painting as well as charcoal sketching has attributed greatly in his use of lighting, composition, colour, texture, and translates to the overall harmony of his visual layouts.
