Have you ever thought about the stories unfolding around you?  I don’t mean what the neighbors are up to, but the countless big and tiny worlds humming along around us, hardly aware of our presence?  As Mr. Forager & I were backpacking in the Trinity Alps last weekend, it struck me how very small we humans are in this vast world, and yet how self-important, while the majority of life on earth couldn’t care less who we are and what we do.  The work of Belgian artist Isabelle Menin seems to illustrate those teeming microcosms so blissfully unaware of our presence.

Menin creates these flowery domains by photographing flowers and then using digital software to layer, manipulate, and bring forth explosions of color and light.  The resulting images are incredibly mysterious and sensual, almost operatic in their style– filled with melodrama and small, elegant nuances.  There is a feeling of emergence and immersion, that walking out of darkness into light and vice versa.  I might seriously consider giving up this world for hers.

To see more of Isabelle Menin‘s work, please visit her website.

All images are via the artist’s website.