Paper Flowers is fundamentally an exploration of 3D scanning/imaging technology and experimentation of its photographic capabilities outside of its intended more industrial use case. By scanning local plant life I am creating a catalogue of 3D subjects that I can view as a point cloud. By then projecting this point cloud onto photographic paper, a direct transfer from screen to paper occurs, no digital file being printed, but a new image entirely - one that shows all the artefacts of both traditional darkroom printing and the digital screen. By highlighting this hybridisation of processes this projects aims to discuss the latent image and the physical photographic image in a post-digital context. The individual image titles come from the plants name, and then how many vertices in the polygon mesh that make up the point cloud.

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