Dominic Grantley-Smith Microcosms reminds me of the books by Wolfgang Stuppy and Rob Kesseler, such as Seeds: Time Capsules of Life: I could see Microcosms making a nice exhibition in a botanic garden. The detail in these confocal images really shows the diversity of these amazing species. When visiting Botanic Gardens, we are in awe…
Osiris Sinuhé González Romero Visionary Art, Ecodelícs and Microcosmic Phytoformalism. The use of sacred plants with psychoactive properties and the development of technology can extend our vision. Both facilitate an understanding of universes and realities not perceptible to the naked eye during our ordinary states of consciousness. The creative use of psychoactive plants and confocal…
Milton Fernando González Rodríguez Microcosms Microcosms is many things. It is a science-art project that allows us to visualize plants from the intimacy of their own morphologies. The images in this unique Homage to Sacred Plants of the Americas show those structures that are hidden to the human naked eye. In the process, the platform…
George Gessert Microscopes reveal worlds invisible to the naked eye, but no matter how awe-inspiring the revelations, they are likely to confront us with the limits of our comprehension. As Steven White writes, “… rapture! But then what?” Microorganisms, cells, and organic molecules appear in a fair number of art works, including by Kandinsky, Jean…
Juan Carlos Galeano The eyes of the plants The ancestral desire to transform ourselves into other beings now allows us to feel the microscopic body of sacred plants. Jill Pflugheber and Steven F. White have listened to and presented the Amerindian wisdom of seeing with plant eyes. Where cold science has failed to understand nature,…
Roberto Forns-Broggi It’s not exactly easy to turn to the tendency to consider Nature as art because it’s still overwhelming to measure everything by the yardstick of human realities accustomed to norms and familiar meanings. But what can give us this thirst for life, for flowering, for the time of what’s distinctive that nourishes a…
Rina C. Faletti The website Microcosms, opened in 2022, presents the inaugural results of a plant-art project that exhibits a visually striking and intellectually stimulating image collection of living plants taken under a microscope. Electric colors and bold patterns captured through the method the authors call microcosmic phytoformalism, a specialized confocal laser scanning microscopy, reveal intricate structures…
Santiago Eslava-Bejerano and Carolina Sánchez Sacred Plants: Mirrors and Messages Stigmatization and prohibitionism hinder access to first-hand knowledge of the sacred plants of the Americas and the Caribbean. In addition, many virtual sources of information increase the distance between people and plants through the collection of data or the creation poor-quality information that criminalizes the…
Liam Engel People and plants have grown apart. Science, art and psychoactivity can help grow us back together. Microcosms creates beauty through laboratory instruments and reenchants audiences with the magic of nature. Dr Liam Engel, School of Medical and Health Sciences, Edith Cowan University Engel, L. (2022). The Entheogen Combination Matrix. Entheogenesis Australis. Engel, L….
Juan R. Duchesne-Winter The most portentous aspect of this dazzling project by Steven F. White and Jill Pflugheber is their gesture of homage to sacred plants. With precise and rigorous prose, and sublime high-definition images, they sing the praises of these plants, thanking from their hearts the spiritual owners who care for them and the…
End of content
End of content
