The Dutch artist, Ruud van Empel expresses a painting-like world that is actually a photo-collage made by the calculated arrangement. He combines photographs to invent a fictitious plant or portrait.

”Thomas Struth meets Henri Rousseau-how’s that for a formula?」-Ben Davis,associate editor of Artnet magazine, from the article “Phyco-Social Still-Life”
by Ruud van Empel at the interview of "art-isle" September, 2008.