How to store your stuff in nature

I stayed in Indonesia and Thailand for a year and a half. The new flora in the tropics brought me a new perspective and interest. The project that started with this interest is the series 'How to store your stuff in nature'. This series is an experiment to maximize the visual amusement I experienced through tropical plants and to combine nature photography and still-life photography in my way. On the surface, it seems to be a kind of introduction to various ways to organize stuff with plants, but in substance, this is creating a temporarily existing three-dimensional work that emphasizes the shape, texture, and thickness of plants. Basing on the ordinary stuff in the photography, the viewer can guess the characteristics of a certain plant such as the actual shape of the plant, the thickness of the leaves supporting the weight of objects. At the same time, through the scenes where objects and plants imitate each other's shape, and by granting new roles to store things to plant, both familiar plants and objects become unfamiliar. Some photos may look like the composite photos but all of them were taken photos after installation in practice and without the use of any tools to fix, objects installed only with the strength and structure of the plant itself. The reason for naming the title which looks like a how-to book and dealing only with stuff that can be stored in the plant in practice is to make photography considered not only as an art but also as practical information. It can broaden the range that can be interpreted according to the viewer.