Artist Margaret Helthaler Profile on BoundlessGallery.com

Member since:
Nov-21-06
Registered in:
United States

I enjoy taking a closer look at small, often unnoticed, details in the landscape. In my Roadside Flowers series, I use a flatbed scanner as an alternative to a traditional camera. The images are captured by collecting tiny flowers and weeds I find growing along the road and scanning the plants directly at a very high resolution. This process enables me to enlarge the diminutive details of each plant many times their original size – revealing colors, shapes and textures that are not usually discernable. Many of the flowers and [see more]

I enjoy taking a closer look at small, often unnoticed, details in the landscape. In my Roadside Flowers series, I use a flatbed scanner as an alternative to a traditional camera. The images are captured by collecting tiny flowers and weeds I find growing along the road and scanning the plants directly at a very high resolution. This process enables me to enlarge the diminutive details of each plant many times their original size – revealing colors, shapes and textures that are not usually discernable. Many of the flowers and grass seeds I collect are as small as than the nail on my pinky finger. The scanner’s shallow depth of field, combined with the abstract watercolors I place in the background during the scanning process, lends a painterly quality to the final enlarged images. Thus, with humble weeds, I present a contemporary twist to a theme most notably associated with the late Georgia O’Keeffe. [hide]