Still lifes with wild life

German photographer Lia Darjes, paying homage to the Dutch Golden Age, was inspired for her latest project when she a squirrel jump on her garden table:

“Of course, I’d seen this little spectacle a thousand times before, but at the time I was actively looking for my next topic,” Darjes explains on the origins of the project. “My previous project Tempora Morte had encouraged me to once again dedicate myself to my passion for still life. I saw the squirrel and thought: Hmm, can I perhaps recreate that?” Her imagination captured, the photographer came up with a new nocturnal routine: she would leave the crumbs and dirty plates from finished meals at her or her friend’s garden, set up a camera with a movement trigger and see what happens.