Untitled installation, from Refracted growth

Part of a larger body of work, this three dimensional installation is made from collaged analog c-print photograms of flower petals.

Refracted growth deals with concepts of growth and regeneration using the indexical language of botanical photograms and collage.

In the darkroom, I tear apart flowers that have personal symbolism to me. I break them down to petals, and make color photograms of them. Then I cut these prints out piece by piece, following the petal structures on the page, so that I start with the “cells” to build structures from. Shapes and color grow and mutate from the individual “cells” into collaged organisms. The pieces take new forms, cellular in nature, but like all bodies, their own small universes.