It's easy to forget that bugs have faces – a portrait completes with eyes, a mouth and, if not a nose, OR a pair of large antennae. Macro photography opens up the possibility in capturing an extreme close-up of creepy undergrowth - revealing the complex compound eyes of robber fly, the beautiful profile of a snake and an emerging underground mole cricket. All of these images have been lit at night resemble the nocturnal life of these undergrowth. Prior to the love of natural world and the inspiration of insects’ detailed portraits of a world we rarely see, let alone appreciate.
His practice provides a useful set of allegorical tools for maneuvering with a pseudo-minimalist approach in the world of photography: these meticulously planned works resound and resonate with images culled from the fantastical realm of imagination. By exploring the concept of landscape in a nostalgic way, he investigates the dynamics of landscape, including the manipulation of its effects and the limits of spectacle based on our assumptions of what landscape means to us. Rather than presenting a factual reality, an illusion is fabricated to conjure the realms of our imagination.
