Still-life painting has been a genre that most clearly demonstrates ownership and the purchasing act of humans throughout history. As Roland Barthes claimed still-life painting is a "commodity empire". The genre of still-life illustrates the glamour of wealth that affluent people of the upper class have earned through colonizing people and regional places. My photography lifts the glamour off the still-life genre and shows the type of decay within an unfair world-order behind the scenes. Our nature and world are decomposing as a result of the problematic relationship that the human race has developed with nature from past to present. As I believe in direct narration, I name these series of photographs ‘decayedness’.
richcaldwell
