This body of photographic works revolves around the Rhynchophorus ferrugineus, better known as the Red Palm Weevil, an insect with Asiatic origins that has moved quickly westward over the last century, aided by technology and globalism. The weevil's arrival in Southern Europe has devastated palm trees around the Mediterranean, a development I describe as a case of “globalization eating colonialism,” as many of the affected palms were planted in the last century for touristic and political reasons.

These photos depict a process by which romantic elements in the landscape change meaning as things disappear from the mix. It is an investigation of a subtractive aesthetic event.