Paradiso
digital photographs
selected, 2020
"Paradiso" is a series of photographs inspired by nature. During pandemic I started building mock-ups made of thrown away plastic flowers from cemetery trash bins. Materials were ready for different photo-shooting, but due to first lock down, I couldn't invite any models to my studio. When the lock down started, and walking to he park was not allowed, I started thinking more about relationship between human and Nature. I did not feel a lack of it, until I got cut out of it.
Photographs are inspired by Nederland's old masters paintings and they try to create a substitute of something that is not available.
Connection between plastic - an global issue of overproduction of dangerous for Nature trash, with beautiful compositions creates an absurd combination. Only the source of flowers provides a "scary " message. Do we relay want, that our future will be based of substitutions? Do we really wants to promote a reality based on production of goods just for the profit? When had we lost the real connection with reality and Nature?
![Paradiso2.jpg](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/9c7cc2_48424132183944d0a9b3e7ae7a8cea1e~mv2.jpg/v1/crop/x_793,y_227,w_1454,h_1403/fill/w_475,h_458,al_c,q_90,enc_avif,quality_auto/Paradiso2.jpg)
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