Ecological Romance
Ecological Romance
Ongoing hybrid project | Photography, painting, text | Since 2025
Ecological Romance began as a photo-text experiment during my residency at Rimbun Dahan, Malaysia. It has since grown into an evolving body of work exploring the queer, overlooked, and chaotic structures of nature—through photographs, paintings, and words.
It started with a walk through the arboretum, carrying my newly acquired Ricoh GR III (28mm lens). I was tired of typing, tired of explaining. Then I saw a tree stump, and tiny mushrooms growing quietly from it. I crouched, clicked. Later in my room, I wrote something small to go with the photo. A romance began: between image and word.
Since then, Ecological Romance has expanded into new forms. The series Texture of Thailand captures raw textures and emotional tension—friction, heat, waste, skin. And then there are the paintings, where natural elements melt into dreamscapes, fragments, colours, storms.
This is not a scientific project. It’s not nature photography either. It’s a quiet resistance. A storytelling through pigments, images, and poetic fragments.
Photographs and Paintings
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