Begging you to slow down, take a look at your world, and the fragile ones within it is Catherine Nelson's current exhibition, Creation, at the Australian Centre For Photography.

Nelson forces your eye to indulge in life's natural pleasures, with its flora and fauna being the subject of the photographs, they're transformed into worlds of their own, emphasizing their beauty and significance.

Balanced between the physical, temporal and fantastical creation, these stunning planetary spheres paradoxically appear unreal, even though they're from our world as we know it. Exploring the term Creation in its various connotations, whether God-made, or grown through evolution, the series capture the essence of place as a complex ecological story. Nelson's photographs from Australia and Western Europe construct a contemporary pictorial mythology that subtly reminds the viewer of a profound truth; that it is in the flourishing variety of the local that the fate of the world resides. Not just our world, but the intricate, fragile and striking ones within it.