With this series, I wanted to grant ordinary garden plants—some of them even “weeds”—an aura of the extraordinary, the radiant, and the sophisticated. Flora possesses its own particular elegance, even when it doesn’t belong to those species the general public considers attractive—or even acceptable.
Since my summer residence is, as a Romanian folk song goes, in the countryside, I took advantage of this to photograph everything that caught my eye in my mother’s yard and garden. The collection of plant-themed photographs is extensive, but I selected a few for the “light fixtures” series because they seem to emanate their own glow and elegance.
What’s also interesting—at least to me—is that only in that place, where I spent my childhood summers, do I feel drawn to this subject. When I travel elsewhere, flowers don’t attract me at all, nor do I ever manage to take a single photograph of them that I’d want to keep.
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