The sumi-e apparitions of starling bird flocks or “murmurations” shot by Søren Solkær.

The seller at the farmer’s market was astonished that I was picking the fruits with the most leaves and branches on them. “You know you’ll have to pay the weight for the branches, too.” He didn’t understand. He didn’t see the beauty in the leaves.

When I first saw a lotus pod, I didn’t believe it was a real plant. I wanted to capture that strangeness in the photos. As a first encounter, the lotus pods are left bare as if they were photographs meant for clinical study. Their strangeness becomes more pronounced in isolation.

Sculpture caught in the setting sun at the Thorvaldsens Museum. Copenhagen, Denmark.