These three precedent images are my favorite pieces of work from artist Damien Hirst.
In the first image, of a diamond skull, Damien has chosen to represent one type of material which is abundent and important in our lives, bone, and replace it with a rare and luxury material, diamond. I like this use of swapping materials which we have a strong relationship with in a familiar shape and change the way we think about the form.
The second image is one of Damien's spin paintings. I like this piece because of the relativey random pattern it creates, the paint is spraying outwards but we end up with a wild out of control image.
In the third and last image, Damien has cut a cow in half and place each section in a seperate box. I like the way that a person who views the piece can view the cow from either the outside or inside of the cow. This allows the person to get inside of something we usually cannot. The other interesting aspect of this piece is that he is taking something which requires to be together to operate and split the parts up. This mean that seperately the parts are pretty useless, it is only when we add them together does anything happen.