Orchid Family - Large Product:Small and metal on a birch

and metal on a birch plywood base

This technique of paper stretching is traditionally used to restore antique shoji screens and scrolls

etched by the forces of nature

and 8"in diameter

Hints of bright orange glass and 23k gold casting are contrasted with earthy terracotta jasper beads in this colorful statement necklace

Orchid Family - Large Product:Small and metal on a birchThis image is part of the artist's ongoing Floraphilia project, which was first published in the prestigious Lenswork Magazine in July of 2010. A second black and white portfolio was published in 2014, and a third portfolio, in color, was published in Seeing in Sixes in 2017. A new Floraphilia portfolio is being reproduced in the May 2018 digital issue of Shadow & Light Magazine. Each photograph is a numbered and signed limited edition archival print