Ecological Romance

Ongoing photo-text project, 2025.

Ecological Romance is a photographic-poetic series exploring the intimate and unexpected textures of life in nature. Created during my residency at Rimbun Dahan, each photograph is paired with a short poetic reflection or a text in any form. It’s a quiet love story with decay or stubborn plants that refuse to give up.

Not long ago, I acquired a Ricoh GR III with a 28mm lens. Around that time, I was feeling a kind of fatigue with words, tired of typing, tired of trying to explain. So I left my laptop and went for a walk in the arboretum, just to clear my mind. That’s when I stumbled upon a tree stump, with tiny mushrooms growing on it. It looked so ordinary I almost missed it. Still, I took a photo. Then I crouched down, took another... closer this time.

This weird little world turned friendly.

Back in my room, I began writing a poem in response to the image. Then I took more photos. Maybe there will be more texts too. And somehow, this ecological romance grew through my fingers.

This is not a scientific study. It is a romance— between image and word,