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.