Conceived by photographer Jeremy Ayer, the artist book Organs of a Divided Labour Flowers presents an intricate visual study of the global flower trade. Through a series of highly detailed analog photographs, each flower is isolated against a white background in a manner that recalls the quantitative clarity of commercial product photography. Detached from any natural context, the flowers become objects emblematic of a commodified nature. They appear immaculate and uniform, yet strangely vacant, suspended between beauty and banality and revealing the tension between their organic origins and their commercial existence.

Shot on 4 x 5 positive diafilm, the images adopt the precise and controlled aesthetic of late twentieth century studio photography, where sharpness and vibrant color were central to industrial standards. This neutrality recalls typological strategies, not as a direct homage but as a structural logic that Ayer deliberately redirects. By drawing on the disciplined, systematic and analytical approach associated with the Becher school, he treats artistic methodologies themselves as reproducible protocols, almost as if they were another form of industrial instruction. In combining these typological frameworks with the visual language of commercial catalog imagery, the work merges two forms of photographic labor and exposes how both contribute to the construction of value, clarity and meaning within contemporary visual economies.

The controlled presentation produces a visual clarity that feels both precise and detached, underscoring the tension between natural form and commercial representation. Organs of a Divided Labour Flowers invites the viewer to consider the shifting boundary between documentation and constructed imagery and to reflect on broader economic and cultural forces embedded in photographic practice.

The publication includes a reflective essay by landscape architect Violeta Burckhardt on humanity’s desire to preserve beauty, as well as a critical analysis of Ayer’s work by art historian Claus Gunti.

236p, Off-set print colour and bw cover, 24x32 cm, pb, English, selfpublished under the name "Rava" in 2024