Otherworldly Botanicals
A series born at the start of the pandemic. I found myself feeling lost and disconnected at the sudden inability to photograph or be near people. Searching for a creative outlet to help me cope, I looked out my window one afternoon to see my Four ‘O Clock plant had started to bloom. These beautiful flowers bloom in late afternoon and lose all their petals by the following morning. I quickly clipped a few of them and rushed into the studio to play, approaching them as I would a portrait of a person. As the weeks carried on more subjects began presenting themselves as they came out of their winter dormancy and the series was born. Each image is created in camera using the power of studio lights covered in gel paper to get the rich and saturated colors you see