Photographer Murielle Etc is the Edge of Humanity Magazine contributor of this photo essay. From the series ‘Occultus Creatures’. To see Murielle’s body of work, click on any image.

Once upon a time, some plants were tired of seeing the same scenery : they dreamed of going to see if the grass is greener elsewhere… But how to do that when you are literally planted on the spot, with your roots deep in the ground ? They had to metamorphose to become new independent entities, able to move!

These photos are some of the portraits of a series created with plants photographed in different gardens in Brittany (France), such as the Botanical Garden of Brest or the Exotic Garden of Roscoff. After some manipulations, these vegetables are transformed into imaginary and mysterious creatures (with imaginary names too) : they become Photographically Modified Organisms (PMO).

I’m from Brittany (France), living by the sea. I started photography very very young, it was one of my passions (with music). After studying at the Beaux Arts in Nantes, I decided to go to a photography school in Paris, to learn the technique. Today, I now devote myself to more personal photographic works. I’m especially fascinated by the small details of the natural scenery that surrounds me, these little things that we don’t always see at first glance and that disappear very quickly, the time of a wink. I’m fascinated by these fleeting and ephemeral moments that are offered to us by Nature. I capture them before they disappear. I then intervene on these ”snapshots” to better appropriate them. Nature is an artist and I try to capture her creations and transform them.

All images and text © Murielle Etc