Christian Staebler is a French scanography artist who mainly works with materials from nature, such as leaves, flowers, insects, and animals. He creates his scan collages for layouts for books, magazines, and other print materials. He started scanning the living world outside his house, starting with his backyard, which progressed into elaborate and colorful collages.
I found his work to be particularly colorful, but hard to look at. These living things seemed odd - though photography also puts them into a still image, the scanning, on the other hand, gives them a rather fake look (like High Dynamic Range [HDR] photography today). The arrangements seem stiff to be, rather than how nature actually feels - alive and flowing. However, I also think that this way of documentation is definitely valid and successful.
Yes, my purpose was to create new and totally imaginary landscapes with real natural materials. Just so that to viewer can see that beauty can be seen in different ways. And also to emphasise little objects, flowers or animals, the eye usually don't take care. I don't want to be realistic (others do that much better then me), but to propose other forms of beauty.
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