Tender Spines is a photographic series that studies the duality of nature its gentleness and its defenses, its softness and its thorns.
Each image isolates a plant, a leaf or a branch, revealing textures normally overlooked: velvety surfaces, delicate curves, sharp spines catching the light like tiny weapons. Through the lens, the natural world appears both inviting and untouchable, echoing the paradox of everything that grows.

The series moves between two poles : the softness of leafs bathed in quiet colors, and the brutal elegance of thorns and bark, carved by survival.
These contrasts expose a silent tension: beauty that protects itself, fragility guarded by invisible boundaries.

Tender Spines invites the viewer to look longer, to contemplate the emotional landscape of plants how they hold both harmony and resistance within a single form.
The work reflects on resilience, adaptation, and the poetic complexity of living matter.
Nothing is purely soft, nothing purely dangerous : each plant carries its own story of light, color, protection and vulnerability.