"Ice Forms" Ryuijie

"Ten years ago I started working on a series of photographs I call "Ice Forms".

The subjects are vegetable plants frozen in blocks of ice, shot in black and white on a large format camera. and printed on 20x24 silver-gelatin paper. I recently expanded the series to include color. In both black and white and color, the ice is as important as the flowers it surrounds, creating an element of surprise and unpredictability. This element can be compared to the Japanese principle of wabi-sabi - the beauty of nature in all its imperfections."