Structure Piece - Leaves (1)

"The work 'Structure Piece — Leaves (1)' is made of a sequence of tree leaves mounted along a horizontal line. Recorded in close-up and decontextualized from the landscape, the leaves lose depth, while the texture and the serial presentation of the motifs create a geometrical pattern that brings about a tension between space and the two-dimensional surface.
Despite having studied painting, Jan Dibbets soon turned to photography as his medium of choice. His photographic compositions adopt natural elements as their theme, such as grass, water and leaves. The medium of photography is used by the artist as an analytical tool to investigate our perception of the natural world."