HHS contender, German photographer Marlon Kowalski was one of the first to complete his entry. I saw the work and wanted to write about it then but for some reason, didn't. But, weeks later, I'm thinking about it again, in spite of the onslaught of entries in the last few days of the competition. The work is simple but clever, exploring the ever-narrowing boundaries between painting, sculpture and photography. While many of the images, like the above, Circle, stand alone, Kowalski pairs images on his website, creating visual puns that reconsider the relationships between the three-dimensional world and the two-dimensional picture plane, livestock on a hillside and sunbathers on the beach, swans and ruffled paper, and light and physical objects, among other things.