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This work comes from my series CABINET OF CURIOSITIES, based around the presentation of botanical specimens in illustrations by the likes of Ernst Haeckel. Rather than real forms h owever, these are biomorphic and suggestive fantasies generated by combining square, close-up photographs of randomly folded and pinned pieces of latex. Rather than digitally blend the images, slight misalignments, inconsistencies of focus etc are retained, inviting the eye of the viewer to do the blending instead. The series’ title refers to the historical collections of natural and ethnographic “curiosities” that were fashionable in the 17th to 19th centuries. Show more