WHAT REMAINS
What Remains explores the raw poetry of botanical transformation — a study of beauty, asymmetry, and the quiet logic of senescence. The series observes flowers in states of transition, where colour shifts, textures soften, and forms bend into new geometries. In these moments of unfolding and unravelling, a different kind of allure emerges: delicate, chiral, and unexpectedly expressive. Each portrait isolates a chosen phase within this metamorphosis, revealing the inherent elegance that persists as the bloom moves beyond its prime — beauty not as perfection, but as transformation.
ARTIST STATEMENT
For this portrait series, I followed each flower through its own natural progression — allowing it to reveal its character in the quiet intervals between opening and withering. Rather than capturing a single ideal moment, I waited for the point at which the bloom settled into its truest form, where gesture, colour, and structure aligned. Photographed on large-format negative film and printed at a large scale, the works offer a 1:1 encounter with the flower, inviting the viewer into intimate proximity with its shifting states. These portraits honour what remains — the subtle transitions, imperfections, and quiet beauty found within botanical form.
Print description:
Archival Carbon, Giclée, and Platinum Palladium Prints. Sizes: 30 x 40 cm and 100 x 150 cm / 42 x 60 cm and 120 x 150 cm
Selected Shows & Exhibitions:
Sotheby’s - London, March 2001
