Photographs and sculpture by Brooklyn artist Stanislav Ginzburg.
“My still life work explores the universality of biology by drawing parallels between insect anatomy and various types of flora as well as questioning the possibility of organic forms outside our planet. My self–portraits examine the fraught relationship between this seemingly interconnected natural world and our increasingly detached state of life.
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I first became aware of the morphological similarities between different species of plants and insects while studying vintage botanical charts… I started translating these flat shapes into three–dimensional digital sculptures: a frog’s cranial nerve resembling a blossoming stem, a moth’s sensory system parodying a fern, a honey queen bee’s reproductive organs flowering atop a windowsill like a potted plant…”
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