Seen Unseen, Isotoma
This image is part of a body of work called Seen/Unseen which explores flowers in ice. This reveals, obscures, intensifies and changes the details. These images also have beautiful shallow depth of field (bokeh,) so sometimes only have a tiny area in clarity.
By playing with what can be seen, the colour, texture, fine details and shapes become unfamiliar and yet somehow richer and more familiar.
This photography is a slow process; from picking the flowers, freezing and thawing, it takes time for the image you see to emerge and the most incredible elements show up from flowers that we don’t usually see either because we don’t spend time really looking or because they are very small in real life. The most striking detail could be a colour distilled, a sublime shape or an unexpected texture.
When those tantalising details do emerge the ice has often damaged the flower in the places where it has thawed, sometimes a colour bleed or a breakdown of a petal whilst in others it keeps the flower safely locked within and hidden.
Here I can’t help but see an echo of our own personal walls which like the ice keep us safe but inaccessible and when dropped, available to be seen and to connection but also beautifully vulnerable.
Archival prints professionally printed on Hahnemühle Pearl Fine art paper
Signed and with edition number on the white border
Each comes with a certificate of authenticity
Small (A4) Limited edition of 50
Medium (A3) - Limited edition of 25
Large (A2) - Limited edition of 10
World Wide shipping available
This image is part of a body of work called Seen/Unseen which explores flowers in ice. This reveals, obscures, intensifies and changes the details. These images also have beautiful shallow depth of field (bokeh,) so sometimes only have a tiny area in clarity.
By playing with what can be seen, the colour, texture, fine details and shapes become unfamiliar and yet somehow richer and more familiar.
This photography is a slow process; from picking the flowers, freezing and thawing, it takes time for the image you see to emerge and the most incredible elements show up from flowers that we don’t usually see either because we don’t spend time really looking or because they are very small in real life. The most striking detail could be a colour distilled, a sublime shape or an unexpected texture.
When those tantalising details do emerge the ice has often damaged the flower in the places where it has thawed, sometimes a colour bleed or a breakdown of a petal whilst in others it keeps the flower safely locked within and hidden.
Here I can’t help but see an echo of our own personal walls which like the ice keep us safe but inaccessible and when dropped, available to be seen and to connection but also beautifully vulnerable.
Archival prints professionally printed on Hahnemühle Pearl Fine art paper
Signed and with edition number on the white border
Each comes with a certificate of authenticity
Small (A4) Limited edition of 50
Medium (A3) - Limited edition of 25
Large (A2) - Limited edition of 10
World Wide shipping available
This image is part of a body of work called Seen/Unseen which explores flowers in ice. This reveals, obscures, intensifies and changes the details. These images also have beautiful shallow depth of field (bokeh,) so sometimes only have a tiny area in clarity.
By playing with what can be seen, the colour, texture, fine details and shapes become unfamiliar and yet somehow richer and more familiar.
This photography is a slow process; from picking the flowers, freezing and thawing, it takes time for the image you see to emerge and the most incredible elements show up from flowers that we don’t usually see either because we don’t spend time really looking or because they are very small in real life. The most striking detail could be a colour distilled, a sublime shape or an unexpected texture.
When those tantalising details do emerge the ice has often damaged the flower in the places where it has thawed, sometimes a colour bleed or a breakdown of a petal whilst in others it keeps the flower safely locked within and hidden.
Here I can’t help but see an echo of our own personal walls which like the ice keep us safe but inaccessible and when dropped, available to be seen and to connection but also beautifully vulnerable.
Archival prints professionally printed on Hahnemühle Pearl Fine art paper
Signed and with edition number on the white border
Each comes with a certificate of authenticity
Small (A4) Limited edition of 50
Medium (A3) - Limited edition of 25
Large (A2) - Limited edition of 10
World Wide shipping available