McCormick's floral photographs are also stunning and strangely affecting. From a petal-less tulip and a collection of withered poppies to a wilted houseplant, the works are highly detailed and somehow seem more real and more beautiful than the now clichéd images of blooming flowers we've long been accustomed to.
"Some flowers die gracefully, others not so much," explains McCormick. "That was my attraction to them. Flowers sort of all die in different ways, and we all kind of age in different ways, depending on our life experiences and how we're nurtured."
For McCormick this parallel to our own fleeting existence has also led to a number of transformative experiences both creatively and personally. "I've been commissioned by two people to photograph flowers
Secret Garden @ SPAO, Red Wall Gallery (168 Dalhousie Street), until Aug. 28
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