Photographs by Ross Lowell

Over a lifetime of observing nature through a camera lens, I've transitioned from literal reproductions to fanciful reconstructions, built from borrowed elements and bent reality. Experimenting with camera movement, long exposures, and imposed symmetry, I've found surprising visual parallels with the natural cycles of the earth.

The spiral, one of nature's fundamental building blocks, suggests both growth and diminishment, an expansion or contraction of time. Intense color and exaggerated motion hint at alternate perceptions of time and space that ordinarily elude us, such as the rush of an insect pollinating a flower, or the centuries-long turf battle between a rock and a tree. Mirror-imaging imposes a bi-lateral symmetry on inanimate objects that can bring them to life, or, taken further, create an abstraction based on nature's own miraculous design.

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