“Metamorphosis” was born in the landscape of Mallorca. In this body of work I explore the interplay between artistic space and the natural world.

My subject is lichen: algae living in symbiotic relationship with one or more fungi. My method is to translate the world of these organisms into photography, to duplicate or even quadruple it, and to rearrange it anew. In doing so, nature’s order is not dissolved, merely reformatted.

Lichens are indicators of air quality. Where they thrive in abundance, the air is clean. The Serra de Tramuntana is home to an especially rich diversity of lichen.

I photograph these forms, colours and structures under changing light, from every possible angle, until images and figures begin to emerge in my mind. I find them on stone, rock and walls, and through layered processes I transform them into a fascinating immateriality.