TITLE: In collaboration with nature and randomness

All human work goes through stages that lead to irreversible degradation processes. And from there, to ruin, abandonment and oblivion. Nature, however, is not consumed with death, but regenerates itself, emitting new forms and aesthetics.

We are always looking for a decadent and beautiful ending. Not beautiful in the sense of perfect, but in a new identity and abstraction that generates the concept of an inanimate garden, not exempt from scars or transitions, with a new interpretation of non-life.

The Japanese Wabi-sabi concept takes us to a visual state in which we accept the beauty of imperfection. But why do we consider the absence of life as a dark scenario and not as a new mutation?

The passage of time, diseases, winds and rains form unique traits in plants, the product of continuous transformation and randomness. An elegant, unique fracture typical of irregular beauty.

AUTHOR: Katia Shtina (Spain)

Katia Shtina is a photographer and graphic designer working and living in Barcelona, Spain.

Born in 1986 in a small Siberian city in Russia, Katia was initially studying and working in telecommunications, like her mother.

In 2007, after buying her first camera, she became captivated with the world of photography and visual arts. It was the turning point that led her to study painting, photography, graphic design and then later change her job and country of residence.

Photography became a way to visually express and share what she is fascinated by with others. Also, this medium offers her the perfect fusion of technical and artistic approaches.

In this series of photographs, her primary objective was to make the viewer feel a sense of harmony and balance of interweaving flows and forces of nature.