Inkjet photographic prints on Hehnemuhle Rag paper 13 X 19 inch; image 10 X 15 inch.
Botanicals concerns the constructive nature of perception known as pareidolia.
Subjects for straight digital photography are sought among various forests accessible to the artist, and scenes are chosen for their likely reinterpretation by viewers. Some are enhanced digitally in the studio, but many are not.
Viewers are told that the pictures are all “straight photography,” but shot on Prospero’s Island with an enhanced digital camera capable of revealing wave lengths otherwise concealed. Since none of the images are therefore “enhanced” the viewers are obliged to consider whether what they perceive is present in the work or constructed by themselves.