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Vietnamese-born artist Binh Danh uses 19th-century photographic techniques to burn images into plants. The artist develops his images in the leaves, using chlorophyll as a medium.
These green canvases expand beyond measure with both the seen and the unseen. The serenity of the Buddha on a circular nasturtium suggests a primordial, benevolent world; armed soldiers in camouflage, crouched in calla lily foliage, appear to be both predator and prey; and a young Vietnamese boy, held in the fingered palm of a philodendron, aches with human vulnerability.
One of his pictures features soldiers in the jungle; their image is printed on a very long, tropical leaf. “In a way,” he says, “the soldiers in their camouflage uniforms are becoming one with the landscape.”
As a photographer, Binh Danh has found that chlorophyll prints capture his belief in the interconnectedness of the natural world. Binh Danh now lives in California.