Floral Lovescapes
Melting away in your own head can be a good way to pass the time but the Earth and its flowers call to us — it’s in our DNA. Floral Lovescapes paints a world where there is only you and the flowers breathing around you.
This 1/1 series of 10 composite film photographs was shot over the course of the last three years, detailing a time where I moved away from New York City after seven years of calling it home. With a broken heart and the same 35mm camera I’ve had since the age of 15, I began taking experimental self portraits around the Pacific Northwest and Southern California.
Destruction brings creation, and this series was born out of just that. By altering film using a variety of corrosive and not so corrosive chemicals (pink sparkling wine? Cleaning supplies? Check!), shooting with double exposure film techniques, and tying everything up in a pink psychedelic bow in Photoshop, I created 10 unique “Floral Lovescapes” all using 35mm and medium format film.
Lovesick (2021)
35mm in-camera double exposure, created with a flatbed scanner and some clever ruler placements.
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The first image ever taken for the series. Me, recently dumped and reborn — a lover rising from the ashes.
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Glimmer (2021)
35mm double exposure and medium format overlay.
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Glimmering in a natural water source near you.
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Tulips on a First Date (2021)
35mm and 120mm film digital composite, soaked in pink champagne and the perfect afternoon sun. Portrait by @sterling_analog.
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Driving from the tulips with you at sunset, hazed and full of Lana.
The happiest I could have been.
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Purple Palm Please (2021)
Shot on a disposable Lomochrome Purple camera and rescanned after physically scratching and practically battering the negatives. Digital composite.
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The result of hot California days and intoxication.
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Heart of Me (2021)
A Frankenstein-like amalgamation of four different photographs, both 35mm and 120mm. Different images from different coasts, taken in the company of different people.
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Heart scattered across the nation like a million shooting stars.
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Cloud 9 (2021)
35mm film composite overlayed with scanned textures.
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An ode to daydreaming and living in your own head. Your inner world gets more silent when you’re outside in nature. You can almost hear it whispering the secrets of your lineage to you, over and over again. Keep your roots safe. Go outside.
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Lucid Dream (2021)
A 35mm and 120mm digital composite from one of the last hot days of the summer. Portrait by @sterling_analog.
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Emulating a Venusian painting on a secluded beach, my memory was gone by the time this photo was taken.
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Reclusive Lover (2021)
My first successful “film soup” experiment. By soaking the negatives of this 35mm long exposure in pink champagne and overlaying them in a scanner with one of my favorite Evergreen shots, this was the shot that paved the way for the rest of the series.
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If my bed was out in the middle of the woods, life would be dreamier.
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Marigold Angel (2021)
Double exposure shot on Cinestill 800. Heavenly feeling to shoot in the winter cold and revel in the few hours of sunlight.
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There are moments of magic if you’re truly looking.
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Mountain Wishin’ (2021)
Double exposure on Portra 400 film.
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Mountains are meant to be adored. First time I visited the California desert, I learned how heat is primal and overexposed photos were as close as I could get to the sun.
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