film — foliage — form
a studio for collecting the cinematic residue of organic memory -- pressed leaves, fading film stock, and the quiet persistence of things that refuse to disappear entirely...
a study in the geometry of deciduous decay. each leaf pressed between pages of a 1952 botanical field guide, its chlorophyll surrendered to time, leaving only the vascular architecture -- a network map of a system that once moved water from root to sky.
documenting the unfurling of ostrich fern fiddleheads in controlled humidity. the coiled form holds its tension for days before releasing into the fractal cascade of pinnae -- a slow-motion explosion filmed at 240fps and played back over twenty minutes.
a contact microphone pressed against aged paper during a summer storm. each raindrop leaves a temporary darkening -- a dot of absorbed moisture that fades as the paper dries. the audio recording maps these impacts as a kind of braille score.
fourteen days compressed into ninety seconds. a maple leaf on wet concrete dissolves from scarlet through ochre to translucent brown -- the colors of its summer chlorophyll unmasked in reverse order as the pigments break down and wash away.
a discarded film canister found in a forest clearing, its chrome surface colonized by a thin velvet of moss. the contrast between manufactured precision and organic opportunism -- two systems of order coexisting on a single surface.
fragments recovered from unlabeled film canisters in a university basement. botanical illustrations intercut with laboratory footage -- someone was filming the growth of specimens under artificial light, decades ago, and the film sat waiting to be found.