ENTRY DESCRIPTION
As I walk through the streets and parks, my eyes constantly search for leaves, flowers and seeds of different shapes, colors and textures. I find beauty in the small details of plants, from the most common to the most exotic, and choose them to photograph because they are fabulous and fascinating in themselves. This pod caught my attention by the way the seeds are symmetrically arranged, as if they had been arranged to show off.

AUTHOR
Ulla von Czékus (Salvador, BA, Brazil). Fascinated by plants, as long as she remembers, she has inherited her mother's passion, and developed an intrinsic relationship with photography as a child, influenced by her father - hobby photographer, who loved to record family moments. For 30 years, she worked in the intense and stressful corporate world, when in 2017, during a process of slowing down, and reconstructing the long-lost sensitivity, she turned her gaze to the appreciation of beauty. Then, she united her two passions, resulting in a macrophotographic investigation that records each phase, from resplendence to senescence, of the observed object. Explore and discover unusual textures, colors and shapes in seeds, leaves, flowers and trees that suggest a reflection, as a visual metaphor, for the temporality and impermanence of human life. With a scientific and poetic look, Ulla participated in the last two editions of August of the Arts, in 2018 and 2019, both at the Palacete das Artes - Rodin Museum, in Salvador (BA). She also received three awards through the Botanicals Art Competition and Patterns Art Competition in 2019.

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