Christoph Keller Baalbek Brazil Series, 2018
Digital Fine Art inkjet print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag
50 x 300 cm approx. (overall)
The work consists of five prints. The background of each image depicts archeological ruins and cultural artefacts of Baalbek in Lebanon, an important cultural center of both the Roman Empire and early Christianity, known as Heliopolis. These photographs are inverted reproductions of images that the artist has found in history books. Images of different flora specimens in vivid color are superimposed on the black and white photographs of the Lebanese ruins, that creates the impression of a herbarium.