Core Crops

• Prize
• Photographer
  Aidan McNeill, United Kingdom
• Studio
  Aidan McNeill
• Website
  http://www.aidan-mcneill.com

The series Core Crops explores relationships between still life and
landscape, the mechanical and the miraculous, transformation and
abstraction; both of nature and image. In still life the artist depicts
the world up close and often in detail. Through the manipulation
of the photographic botanical details there is a transformation
from the raw documented object into a new visual language; the
flora still life becomes a vehicle to explore a new landscape. The
rose image becomes an abstracted form, dismantling traditional
mechanics of sight and thus creates distance to allow for a new
transformed aesthetic experience.