Nature Morte, our most recently added photo gallery, is a departure from the portrait series we've been doing to date. It is our series of medical objects and devices re-imagined as objects of beauty. While the French nature morte literally translated to English is "dead nature," it's meaning in English is "still life." The idea for Nature Morte actually originated during one of the shoots we did with my friend Sharon and her family and friends. Both she and her husband had been given radiation for their cancers, and they had taken home the immobilization molds used to hold their bodies still in the exact positions required by the radiation treatment machines. The molds appeared as sculptural objects of beauty when we... Read more »The post Nature Morte: shifting the identity of objects appeared first on The Identity Shift Project.
