Micronature No 2

This work merges my original photographs—taken deep within a rainforest canyon in the World Heritage-listed Australian Blue Mountains—with the generative input of artificial intelligence. The result is a hybrid landscape, part real, part imagined, where native flora is reassembled into unfamiliar forms. It isn’t a botanical illustration or a fantasy, but something in between: a meditation on memory, ecology, and the shifting boundary between the natural and the synthetic. As ecosystems are increasingly reshaped by human impact and climate instability, Micronature No. 2 asks what is preserved and what is lost. Rendered within a circular frame—evoking the lens, the microscope, the portal—it becomes a moment of suspended time, a speculative tribute to the resilience and fragility of place.