Arrangements featuring dendrobium orchids ... Taking cues in particular from the vivid palette of “A Still Life of Flowers in a Wan-Li Vase” (circa 1609) by Ambrosius Bosschaert the Elder ...

Ori Gersht / Hirshhorn Museum, SI Between 2006 and 2008, Israeli-born artist Ori Gersht created traditional still-life arrangements with real fruit or flowers—and then literally blew them up ...

The seeds of the work were planted back in the late aughts when Arnold, an art director with a background in fashion, and Cope, a still-life ... represent the life-cycle of a flower.