Adam FussThe Making of Theia

In the series Theia, Adam Fuss expands his exploration of botanical themes. Named for the hypothetical planet that may have crashed into the Earth and formed our moon, Theia invokes a calamitous occurrence that ushers in renewal and new beginnings. To create the images, Fuss positions fresh spring flowers onto a sheet of thick paper, flattens the arrangement with a metal plate, and presses it through a table-top etching press. The resulting hyper-realistic artworks appear deceptively as three-dimensional compositions, floating against a white space.

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