PRIMAL IMAGES - Amazonas
Primal Images - Amazonas documents the diversity and beauty of the flora in the Amazon rain forest utilizing natural process and photographic techniques that go back to the origins of the medium. This unique and delicate work is made on-site in the Amazon directly from plant specimens collected during explorations of the rain forest. The term Lumen, which references the direct use of light is used to describe these one-of-a-kind, fossil-like, camera-less prints that provide evidence of life while alluding to the loss that is occurring in wilderness environments throughout the world.
The work addresses change and environmental concerns of extinction and preservation of biodiversity, while simultaneously tackling issues of documentary photography and scientific cataloging from an artist perspective that has an underlying commitment to formal beauty. This work is part of a larger ongoing project that began in 1998 and addresses environmental change by making lumen prints of native and invasive plant species in three distinctly different environments, the Amazon rain forest, the Hawaiian Islands, and the coastal wilderness of Southern California.
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Chinense do cheiro
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Eichhornia crassipes
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Epidendrum sp.
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Aciotis aequatorialis #1
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Adiantum terminatum
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Anthurium panduratum
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Bertholettia excelsa
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Brassavola amazonica
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Brugmansia x candida #2
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Campylocentrum fasciola
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Caladium bicolor #1
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Cassia rubriflora
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Tapir goiava #2
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Ficus maxima
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Galeandra Orchid #1
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Galeandra Orchid #2
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Inga edulis
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Leguminosae #1
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Manihot esculenta
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Mimosa pudica
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Philodendron sp.
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Pistia stratiotes #2
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Psammisia guianensis
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Psittacanthus peronopetalus #1
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