Wildflower I (Open Edition)

“The subject matter of this series is Wildflowers. I used a polaroid camera to capture these resilient landscapes where the strength, beauty and naturalism of wildflowers are on display.   For me wildflowers represent nature at its most optimum and act as a metaphor for us in hard times. Wildflowers spring up in the middle of nowhere every year despite harsh climates, and always grow full of grace and beauty.  

I then paint on the polaroid films allowing the paint to interact with the surface and pre-existing image until a balance is reached. I then scan the painted polaroids so that the paint becomes 'fused' to the original photograph. To me these works explore the relationship between the expressiveness of applied paint and the singular ocular point of vue of instantaneous  polaroid photography and play upon the dynamic between control and chance that occurs in these two mediums.”