These are plants considered weeds. Often overlooked, yet look how beautiful they are. A dark, deeply lobed thistle leaf cuts across the square frame diagonally, filling it with its jagged, thorn-tipped edge.
I photograph on the wild meadows of Warsaw. I lead the light so that the pale venation glows against the bottle-green surface like a net of delicate veins — the entire leaf blade turns into a drawing. The background is kept in a very light, celadon-pearl tone that isolates the shape and gives it the character of a herbarium sheet.
The mood is cool, botanical, and orderly, with a note of scientific precision. The square format works beautifully alone above a chest of drawers, and in a grid with other botanical frames.
The photographs are printed on professional, archival papers in limited editions. You can order other size. Print size 30 × 30 cm.