Rotten To The Core

I have said previously that I love taking photographs of decaying objects. Especially if its at the seaside where you can find amazing colours in peeling paint on old fishing boats or a multitude of colours found in rusting boat winches or on groynes. There is just something unique in the way that objects decay over time and they all take on their own sense of degraded appearance whilst retaining a kind of beauty.

The following photographs are not coastal based, which makes a change, but equally fascinating. Estonian artist, Heikki Leis, first noticed it in some potatoes he had left in a pot for too long and on closer inspection, he saw the amazing forms and colours starting to appear that he started photographing and publishing them online, to see if anyone else found them as fascinating.

It started to attract several micro biologists who are studying how food degrades and they encouraged further study in this area.