This project started with an attempt to hold on to something brief.

I received a set of flowers whose gradual collapse made their changing forms more interesting than their short-lived freshness. I dried some of them and worked with their shapes in the darkroom, using colour printing to give their outlines a new presence. These colourful photograms focus on how form persists even as the original object fades.

GEM 504 enlarger, Fuji Crystal Archive DP II Gloss Photographic Paper, Colenta RA4 print processor

Dried flowers & bubble wrap