In The Seraphim, the second installment of Jesse Lenz’s ambitious photobook septology, “The Seven Seals,” the photographer delves deeper into his artistic vision, exploring the profound connection between destruction and renewal, terror and hope. Building on the vision of his first book, The Locusts, Lenz observes his children and their interactions with the surrounding environment, the microcosmic world of insects, plants, and wild animals they encounter, artfully mirroring the cyclical nature of life and weaving a visual tapestry that finds enchantment in the familiar and transforms the mundane into the magical. Set within the landscape of rural Ohio, where Lenz resides, the family farm and its surroundings transform from the simple to the extraordinary, transporting us back to the joys,…