Strauss Louw explores desire, environment, and photography as tactile object. His practice often portrays queer men through candid, languid, and voyeuristic compositions that merge intimacy with observation. The Evening Botanist turns to flowers—pansies, violets, roses, lavender, lilies, carnations, and others—examining their symbolic and cultural resonances in queer contexts. Still-life arrangements draw from classical motifs yet encode subtle, non-textual meanings, readable to those attuned to them. These works entwine queerness, masculinity, and floral symbolism into dialogues across history and identity. By layering observation and intimacy, Louw creates visual poems where flowers and bodies articulate desire, playfulness, and cultural memory.