Underwater Transparency Transparent Flower Petals Below

The Glass series examines botanical form through a process that renders flowers translucent, revealing their internal structure with forensic clarity. By removing surface pigment and allowing purified water to occupy the capillaries of the petals, the works expose skeletal fibres and vascular veins ordinarily hidden from view.

This transformation produces images that recall anatomical studies or radiographic views, offering an unprecedented perspective on floral architecture. What remains is not colour or surface beauty, but structure: a fragile framework that supports life yet is rarely observed in isolation.

The series engages with long-standing questions of originality and perception within still life traditions. By selecting an instantly recognisable subject and presenting it in an unfamiliar state, the works challenge habitual ways of seeing, asserting that restraint and simplicity can demand greater risk than overt provocation.

Light passing through the transparent forms creates subtle tonal shifts, emphasising depth, delicacy, and the tension between presence and absence. Each image becomes a study of fragility, where beauty is located not in ornament but in the exposed mechanics of growth and decay.

Produced entirely in-camera, the Glass works form part of a sustained investigation into material transformation and perception. Within The Legacy Collection, they function as archival records of a process-driven practice that seeks to reveal the hidden structures underpinning familiar natural forms.

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