Sacred Lotus (Nelumbo nucifera) in summer2018
Artist statement: In our nature is a symbolic reminder that we are not separate from, nor superior to nature – that we are indeed a part of nature. It is a site-responsive series set in the Adelaide Botanic Gardens throughout the seasons, symbolically linking the seasonal changes with the stages of life in the people in the photographs.
The first time I witnessed the Sacred Lotus in bloom, its beauty was such that it inspired this series. I returned to the pond each season over the course of a year, to photograph the lotus as it radically transformed … folding in on itself in autumn, dying down in winter, shooting up in spring, and returning to the scale and colour of its summer glory.
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