still life with a fallen petal
still life with a seahorse
still life with sunflower seeds
still life with nicotiana
still life with a spider orchid
still life with a death’s head moth
In this series of six photographs both real and artificial flowers are grafted onto a single stem. This alludes to those Dutch still life paintings of the seventeenth century which, in the same painting, depict flowers blooming simultaneously which, in the real world, only blossom in specific seasons. Another allusion is to the continued contemporary horticultural drive for ‘better’ flowers through genetic modification, F1 hybridisation and cloning.