In 2020–2021, I was living in Paris when the pandemic hit. Strict confinement measures meant I could no longer pursue the photographic projects I had planned around the city. Instead, I revisited a series of 35mm negatives depicting mushrooms and wildlife, offering a contrast to the people and architecture that had been occupying my attention.

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​For me, the series marks a period when confinement brought a growing desire to reconnect with nature. I found myself drawn towards it through the images I had made before. What began as an impulse to seek solitude and something more authentic and true to myself developed into a deeper fascination with the natural world. Revisiting these images became a way of looking more closely, and finding a sense of connection. 

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Working from my apartment window, I had only a brief window of sunlight each day, filtered by the narrow streets of Paris. This limited access to natural light became a constraint around which I developed my experiments with the negatives. The process became meditative, encouraging me to work within these limitations. It offered a sense of creative connection during an otherwise solitary period.

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Deep in the woods, I found that the closer I looked, the more wonders revealed themselves. The more I saw, the more fascinated I became. I can't say I've looked at mushrooms quite the same way since.