Falling into the garden, one curve at a time

What you're seeing isn't just a photograph—it's what happens when you work and shape printed acrylic by hand, responding to every line and contour of the image until it becomes something alive.

I call it "To Be Held by the Garden" because that's exactly what I felt making the original image—and it's what I want you to feel when your eyes track across these curves. This isn't about touch. It's sculpture for the eyes, mind, and soul.

The breakthrough moment? When I held this test piece up to the wall and watched it come alive—depth, beauty, something I'd never seen before in this way.

This is photography meeting sculpture for the first time. Each discipline has informed the other, but they've never actually 'met ' until now.

Working and shaping the acrylic is like being back in the garden where I made the original image—meditative but intensely focused. One wrong move and it cracks, if fragile. You have to be completely present, completely connected. Just like the moment of capture.

The full finished piece is 2 meters by 50 cm and will be shown in November in Shanghai (art fair), unless it finds a home before.

But here's what I really want to know: Can you feel it through the screen? That pull into the garden? Because if this little test piece can do that digitally, imagine standing in front of the full work.

This is about deepening our connection to nature through art that refuses to stay flat on the wall.