In the project room, Theresa Ganz will install a series of new hybrid photo-sculptures based on a process she developed while earning her MFA at the San Francisco Art Institute. Ganz photographs plant life in color, prints on glossy paper, then delicately cuts away the backgrounds. The resulting leaves and branches are woven together to form sacred wreaths and blissful bowers that both evoke and deny art and craft rituals as diverse as 19th century Victorian hair sculpture and photo realistic, trompe l'oeil painting of the 60s and 70s. Sometimes the final works are symmetrical, like rorschach inkblots; other times they are more organic. Regardless, they breathe new life into the field of botanical photography, unearthing its previously undiscovered comic potential and using it as a field for exploring aesthetic perception and the breakdown in the mediums.