This photograph of mine is of a pitcher plant specimen encased in resin. The silver gelatin print shows the subject life size, and is colored out of the same fading dyes I used for the anthotypes in the Objects Apparitions exhibition. When I photographed this object, I didn’t know much about pitcher plants. It reminded me of a bodily orifice, and I thought, well, this is the type of subject that draws one in. After I made the work, I was researching pitcher plants and learned that they are carnivorous plants that lure their prey inside with the use of beauty, texture, color, and sweetness. Once the insect is trapped, their body gradually dissolves. This seemed like the perfect metaphor for a photograph. The photograph is a pitfall trap.  It seduces the viewer with color, texture, fine details.  And when the viewer is absorbed in the picture, they gradually dissolve.  The photograph becomes the captor instead of the captive.