ABOUT

"In my previous work, the human body and nature were recurring themes, so I wanted to make a series concentrating only on these two things. I started out making combinations of images and one such combination was the start of this series. It's an image of a nude male torso, framed in a way that the head and its genitals are cut off and an image of a long shaped plant with a butterfly on it. To me it is kind of obvious that what is hidden in one image is suggested in the other, but I also found it quite funny. I saw this and thought I could try to make a series on sensuality, working with these combinations and associations. So a lot of the images are of nature, which reminds me of parts of the body and others are of flowing water, which is also very suggestive. I think the series works best this way, the strength is in the combinations and the sequence of the images." - Julie van der Vaart