Beauty in Fragmentation. 2024.
“Beauty in Fragmentation” explores the transient and transformative essence of beauty by deconstructing flowers into their fundamental components. This photographic series reimagines traditional still life through the lens of disassembly, examining how fragmentation can enhance our appreciation for the intricate details that compose the whole. By isolating petals from each flower, an element often overshadowed by the flower’s collective allure and reassembling these parts into artistic compositions, the series blurs the line between destruction and creation,
revealing the subtle artistry in every fragment. It serves as a meditation on impermanence, where
dismantling becomes an act of renewal, offering a fresh perspective on nature’s fragile yet resilient beauty.
“Beauty in Fragmentation” also encourages reflection on our connection with impermanence.
Often regarded as symbols of life’s fleeting moments, flowers gain new significance when
dissected. The textures, patterns, and structures—usually hidden or overlooked—become focal
points, prompting viewers to slow down and engage with the microcosms within the natural world.
Through this work, I aim to question conventional notions of perfection and wholeness. The series underscores the tension between unity and separation, allowing viewers to contemplate
how beauty endures in moments of transformation and may even flourish when viewed from a different perspective. Ultimately, “Beauty in Fragmentation” celebrates visual and conceptual complexity. It transforms flowers from fleeting objects of admiration into lasting studies of design, texture, and form, reminding us that inherent elegance awaits discovery even in fragmentation.
Four years, 13 trips, and more inside jokes than your stash of points (he’s in the top 1% of Optimum earners if you didn’t know).
You still look at me like you did on day one—and fine, I’ll admit it… I might be just as obsessed with you as you are with me
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Frozen Ephemera
Artist Statement:
Frozen Ephemera explores the temporal fragility of organic life through acts of preservation and material transformation. Working with allium, hyacinth, hydrangea, and iris, I first document the vitality of each bloom before recontextualizing the petals through freezing. The resulting images suspend the botanical form between vitality and decay, creating objects that are at once delicate, sculptural, and impermanent.
Through the act of photographing and then freezing the flowers, the series examines how artistic and material interventions attempt to preserve fleeting beauty against the relentless passage of time. Ice serves both to momentarily suspend decay and to foreshadow gradual dissolution, illustrating the paradox of preservation within impermanence.
Through minimalist compositions, Frozen Ephemera transforms fragile remnants into meditations on ephemerality, inviting contemplation of what it means to preserve the unpreservable.
October. 35mm. 2024.
October was a month of celebrations: my sister’s graduation, engagement photos in West Vancouver, a combined birthday and engagement party in Vancouver, and another birthday party in Toronto.
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