Photographer Kathryn Parker Almanas culls from a wide variety of sources, including Renaissance religious art, medical imagery, dissection, and food still lifes to create darkly alluring, macabre juxtapositions. When one image might feature a beautifully-lit, cherry-filled pastry, the next might be a revolting Renaissance-era wax cadaver model. Others blur the lines between the two, for example, a pastry, cut open with surgical precision, and oozing red filling. The exact meaning of these associations is enigmatic and a little unnerving. However, the photography is absolutely stunning and brings to mind dark oil paintings.
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