"Les Fleurs de Papier No. 5" in Wrongdoing Magazine

I'm delighted to have my photograph "Les Fleurs de Papier No. 5" included in the lush, expansive, inaugural issue of WRONGDOING MAGAZINE. Many thanks to Pascale Potvin for this lovely publication!

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Kristin Fouquet, "Les Fleurs de Papier No. 5", 41: Pressed flowers in books, collages, and pop-up books were the inspiration for this photography series. The first step was to take photos of flowers in my garden. I edited the two-dimensional images, then printed them on photographic paper, cut them out, and stacked them to create a three-dimensional representation of the original flowers. I placed each of them into one of the books I have written—Surreptitiously Yours (Le Salon Press, 2016)—then took a final photograph.

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