I found this dried thistle near the unfinished prison in Říčany, close to Prague, at the end of winter 2020. During the coronavirus quarantine, I was looking for somewhere outdoors without other people. The site included a four-storey reinforced-concrete building, unfinished for about thirty years, with exposed floors, ceilings and staircases.
The photograph was made in the overgrown grounds rather than inside the building. Among the dry grass and bare bushes, thistle leaves resembled lizards, chameleons and old shells. Beneath their dried flowers, thin spines with smaller thorns curled into spirals reminiscent of the golden spiral.
The wind moved the plants too much for a tripod, so I worked handheld with a 90mm macro lens on an APS-C Nikon camera. I took dozens of frames and spent several days selecting one at home. Converting it to black and white emphasised the plant’s lines.
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