Canadian photographer, Anne Mason-Hoerter, is one of many artists who focuses on plants. She is curious about how our memory is influenced by time, in her work on organic matter. She photographs plants or food items, over a designated time-frame, resulting in an immense number of single images. Weeks later, she combines these multiple images to reconstruct the article she had photographed, purely from her memory. She relies on this process to define what specific quality of food or plants remained most prevalent in her mind, through time. The artist\'s unique photographic process in the Botanics series delivers a dynamic vision. Combining multiple images, from different perspectives, her work displays a poetic movement by capturing plants on a black background. Therefore, the arrangement reflects her memory, but is free of personal interpretation. The colour and texture of each image reveal movement, form and sensuality. Light and effects add depth, fuzzy transitions make you feel the movement and open compositions make it look like the plants are maturing... Hoerter\'s technical choices transform these scenes, from an experiment into an extremely dramatic narrative. It is as if a polyphonic choir has taken the stage to create a harmonious canon. As a student of Photography at the Ontario College of Art, Anne was quickly captivated by extreme photographic manipulation techniques. Today, she continues to search for unconventional ways of presenting food and botanical subject matter. Critics and audiences have described her images as swaying between reality and surrealism.
