Fusion Painterly Glass and Water

The Fusion series centres on studio-grown floral forms cultivated from ancient specimens of allium, a species whose history of human cultivation extends back to the earliest records of civilisation. This lineage introduces a temporal dialogue between human intervention and the natural world, aligning botanical history with the long arc of cultural development.

These floral structures are selected for both their historical continuity and their formal characteristics: complex, interdependent elements coalescing into a single spherical entity. The works explore this geometry as a metaphor for accumulation, cohesion, and latent energy held within organic systems.

Within the studio, the flowers are transposed into an ambiguous visual environment and subjected to controlled chemical and physical reactions. Set against dark voids, luminous spheres emerge as microcosms of concentrated force, glowing from within and evoking the elemental dynamics of stellar formation and collapse.

Referencing cosmic phenomena such as stellar ignition, explosive fusion, and the distant echoes of the Big Bang, each image records a fleeting and irreversible moment. What is captured is not duration, but aftermath: the residual beauty of volatile reactions already extinguished, leaving only trace, memory, and form.

Produced entirely in-camera, the Fusion works occupy a space between botanical study, abstraction, and cosmological metaphor. Within The Legacy Collection, they function as both formal investigations and archival documents, reflecting on impermanence, transformation, and the fragile balance between creation and destruction.

All images in this series are available as rights-managed works for editorial, institutional, and creative use.