The Dreaming State

In search of artistic inspiration I began to dig a square hole in my backyard. Roots were growing under there. I waited until the sun hit a nice angle and made this photograph. It almost becomes a diorama of a tree itself… The funny thing here is fate. If I dug the hole just a few inches to the right or left it would not have worked. It would have just been a hole. Fate.

Look, I brought them back to life.

I developed a simple new shooting method involving a large piece of cut plastic that magnifies, alters depth, adds texture and also reflects surroundings into the frame. All right in camera. It reminds me of an old alternative process, like a wet plate collodion process using a vintage lens.