Tiger Skin Lily
Tiger Skin Lily
1995
Acrylic, C-type Photograph, Steel
Various Dimensions
Collishaw became very despondent at the cosmetically doctored images of flowers that appear on greetings cards and calendars. He made flower pictures where he grafted animal skins onto the surface of various flowers by computer. The resulting images had an aggressive animal appearance much like his idea of flowers, as they actually are, indifferent sexual predators.