Martijn Van de Wiele

There is a certain solemnity in this portrayal of nature: as a camera operator, Van de Wiele gets down on his knees in some of the images, filming the plants from below and letting their crowns stand out against a bright blue sky to which they stretch their fingers, as if—if left unpruned—they would continue to grow into eternity, closer and closer to their nourishing sun. A favour is done to the carnations here; framed individually, they are momentarily freed from mass production, a space in which a flower becomes the flower.