“hedgerow still life” presents us with an uncanny valley of botanicals. The forms are beautiful, floral, and delicate in nature. They leverage a visual language we think we all speak, but the specifics of the vocabulary are of Crespo’s own device. The closer you look, the less familiar they become, dissolving into something new. It’s like when you have a vivid dream and you are back in your childhood home only to have someone else’s parents walk around the corner. The artist uses neural networks trained on large data sets of images from nature to extract textures, reimagining and remixing our reality into fantastic new worlds.
