Hot House for Sick Plants
I see photography as a way to document beauty where I find it in the world. Several years ago, I discovered a place of astonishing beauty: a half-forgotten greenhouse in rural southwest Michigan. Set back behind other greenhouses full of neat rows of docile flowers, this building is where damaged or unused plants are stored. Left in a state of benign neglect, wildness begins to show through the greenhouse’s ordered and deliberate human vision of nature.I have strived to capture the beautiful quiet chaos that results: polite domestic plants like petunias escape and grow roguishly on the floor or wherever else they can take root; wild plants and flowers outside the greenhouse draw close and press in against the transparent walls.I have returned again and again to this place where ill flowers are kept. Stepping into the heat of the moisture and life in the greenhouse is like being transported to another world.
Hot House for Sick Plants