Nature’s Abstracts

The world of plants is an intriguing one.  They are alive and enable us to breathe and yet many of us rarely give them thought apart from to marvel at a beautiful flower or teach our children how to climb trees.  Our lives have become so far removed from what is all around us that some children think that carrots come from TESCO’s and not the earth.

Nature’s Abstracts focuses on the world of plants, taking elements of plants (in particular leaves)  and exploring them in new ways.  The images are magnified, overlayed and altered in such ways that although with some it is obvious, with others it is harder to know what you are looking at and indeed, how it had been altered.   I like the idea that the audience is not quite sure about what they are seeing, it is up to their imagination to extrapolate the real from the imagined.