• An abstract art print featuring a textured, layered composition with horizontal bands of purple, orange, brown, and gray, with a vertical orange stripe running through the center. The print includes white margins at the bottom with the artist signature.
  • A framed panoramic abstract art print in purple, pink and orange tones, displayed on a wall in a styled interior setting.
  • Three framed abstract art prints displayed together on a wall in a modern interior setting.
  • Close-up detail of Naturalia II #024, an original abstract fine art photographic print, showing purple, orange and brown layered textures.
  • Close-up detail of Naturalia II #024, an original abstract fine art photographic print, showing pink, blue and grey tonal patterns.
  • A framed abstract art print with a black frame and white mat, featuring Naturalia II #024 in purple, pink and orange tones, mounted on a white wall.
  • A hand holding a black-framed abstract art print with a white mat, featuring Naturalia II #024 against a plain white wall.
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The Very Fine Art Gallery

Naturalia II - Everything Ends Up Beautiful #024

Naturalia II - Everything Ends Up Beautiful #024

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Naturalia II - Everything Ends Up Beautiful #024 is an abstract photographic work created from damaged negatives transformed by time, humidity and chemistry.

The series began while I was documenting the story behind Naturalia I. As I photographed the old negatives, I noticed that the colours visible on the physical film were more vivid than those in my original scans. I began looking at the material again, scanning the negatives as both negative and reversal film and combining the results to explore the unexpected colours, textures and forms hidden within them.

This work is built around layers of deep violet, lavender, pink and warm orange, with horizontal bands and areas of intense colour emerging through the damaged surface of the film. The combination of soft, almost washed-out areas and darker, more saturated passages gives the image a sense of depth and movement.

Where Naturalia I was about discovering nature's reclamation of the photograph, Naturalia II looks again at that transformation and finds something new within it.

The resulting works are luminous, layered and entirely unrepeatable - somewhere between photography, painting and natural process.

Naturalia II details

• Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle cotton-rag paper
• Museum-quality giclée printing using archival pigment inks
• 6 × 12 inch panoramic format
• Printed to order
• Available as a signed horizontal or unmarked vertical presentation
• Choice of unframed or framed
• Simple contemporary black frame with generous white mount

Made to order - This artwork is produced specifically for you. Please allow up to 5 working days for production before dispatch, followed by the normal 3 working days for UK delivery.

The Story Behind This Collection
Naturalia II began with a discovery I made while working on the story behind the first Naturalia series.

When I unpacked the old negatives from storage, they had been transformed by years of humidity, condensation and chemistry. I photographed them on my iPhone as I documented the process, and while looking at those photographs I noticed something strange. The colours visible on the physical negatives were different from the colours I had seen in my original scans. They were more vivid, more unexpected.

That made me look at the negatives again.

I began scanning them in a different way, first as negative film and then as reversal film. By combining the two versions in Photoshop and adjusting the balance between them, I could reveal colours and relationships that weren't apparent in either scan on its own.

The process became less about recovering what had been lost and more about discovering what else was there.

Naturalia I was about reclamation — nature transforming photographs that had been left in storage. Naturalia II takes those same damaged negatives and looks at them again, finding another set of possibilities within the material.

The resulting images are lighter, more open and often surprisingly painterly. They are not photographs of something I went looking for. They are images that emerged from something that had already happened.

Everything ends up beautiful.
About the Artist
Michael Miller's practice centres on the abstraction of reality — using a hybrid of photographic techniques across multiple disciplines to create an emotional connection with the viewer. His work inhabits a realm of deliberate ambiguity, where he believes an intangible beauty resides: visually poetic, artful rather than merely documentary.

Michael has exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra, the Head On Portrait Prize, the Moran Contemporary Photographic Prize at the NSW State Library, and at the BBA Gallery Berlin. He was voted Australia's Top Emerging Art Photographer by Capture Magazine in 2018, and has been recognised with awards from the IPA, PX3, and D&AD, among others.

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