Titled after the collection of poems by Walt Whitman, Adou’s Leaves of Grass is a lyrical exaltation and recording of the natural world. Working exclusively with analogue photography, Adou created the present image by arranging grass, leaves, crumpled paper stained with ink and his own footprints on a blank sheet of paper, capturing what he saw with his camera and printing the gelatin silver print in his darkroom. The resulting black and white images allude to traditional Chinese ink painting and calligraphy.