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This collection of photographs was created to serve as a visual study of growth patterns of organic material. I intend to readdress this series at a later date, but production of new photographs has not begun yet. For the time being these few images will serve as a teaser of what’s to come! So stay tuned!
Benoît Mandelbrot once said while musing over his discoveries, “Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not circles, and bark is not smooth, nor does lightning travel in a straight line.” The principles he laid out give a vision of our world where complexity exists equally at all scales, and that everything large is composed merely of smaller versions of itself. Inspired by his discoveries, I have created this photo series in which the initial images are pulled from google earth or royalty free from NASA followed by a macro photograph in order to illustrate the insignificance of scale in hopes of passing on to you the awe one can experience seeing the leaf for the nation of cells and the cosmos in your coffee cup.
What is a portrait? Conventionally, a portrait is a photograph of the individuals face, but what does that really have to say about who that individual is as a person? I'm not interested in how people look, I'm interested in who we are. In this series, "Archaeology" I was inspired by the work of archaeologists in how they piece together the past and the lives of the people who lived then by taking careful note of the tools, clothing, and adornments worn by ancient people. In this way I am compiling “archaeological portraits” focusing not on faces, but what we keep on our person, and what that has to say about who we are, and how we lived our lives.