Katherine Williams - Negentropy 2

Artist statement: 

My wife Katherine gathers flora, brings them home. Gift or found, these fragile things are cherished. On our dining table the flower becomes visceral, immediate. A conjugation of the love home is built with. Through an improvised macro lens, we approach its alien detail. The waxy cuticles, delicate stamens, the effulgent, life-giving presence is seen precisely at the threshold of its decay. The spectral photograph acts as a negentropic holding action, as a practice that decomposes the physical specimen to enable its exploration. Home is just so. Much more than a static, bloodless shelter, it is an intimate, improvised sanctuary. Its sublime colours and patterns, nurtured and growing, inside each other. - By Dr Benjamin Matthews.