At the onset of the Covid pandemic I stumbled across the quotation by the Nobel Prize winning author and activist, Olga Tokarczuk. Her words inspired me to create this series of photographs entitled, Apoptosis.

She writes, “Reality has grown old and gone senile; after all, it is definitelysubject to the same laws as every living organism — it ages. Just like the cells of the body, its tiniest components — the senses, succumb to apoptosis. Apoptosis is natural death, brought about by the tiredness and exhaustion of matter. In Greek this word means ‘the dropping of petals.’ The world has dropped its petals.”

My desire was to create imagery that reflected the world surrounding me at the time — lockdowns, illness, uncertainty, and fear but also the transcendent beauty resulting from the world hitting pause for a while.

Archival pigment print
Edition of 7