The Collagen Collection
In my series The Collagen Collection, I photographed natural history specimens as part of a collaboration with the Furman University Vertebrae Museum, to combine my passions for biology and photography. My photographs forge a new way of viewing these specimens by abstracting them into new images, so that the viewer will see them as both functioning biological samples and beautiful objects. I focused on the formal qualities of the specimens – shape, form, texture, shadows – highlighted through the simple black backdrop. These photographs rely on the viewer to disassociate the original object from the abstracted image and to find the hidden beauty within their forms.
Some of these images will appear as a kind of optical illusion – take the time to determine what you see.
Some of these images will appear as a kind of optical illusion – take the time to determine what you see.