John Charles Ryan Jill Pflugheber and Steven F. White’s Microcosms is a dynamic, multifaceted resource that I include in my teaching of interdisciplinary plant studies. Since the release of the project, I’ve been thrilled to incorporate Microcosms into my pedagogy at the intersection of Indigenous studies, environmental humanities, plant humanities, and digital humanities. This portal…

Mary Olivar To the Shipibo Conibo people of the Ucayali River Basin in Peru, each plant carries a special vibrational signature which can be heard, seen, and felt. The sacred plant songs and designs embody the vibrations of these plant allies and are a foundational part of Shipibo healing traditions. The new visual perspective that Microcosms offers echoes the visual representation of…

Blanka Amezkua It is a real gift to have found the Microcosms website that contains such valuable information with beautiful images that as a visual artist enrich me and offer me a singular and intense range to perceive the plant world. It is a truly unique approach. Since the appearance of Covid-19 in our lives,…

Keith Williams Microcosms: A Homage to Sacred Plants of the Americas “How you say is what you mean.” – Jan Zwicky Born of a dream, Microcosmic Phytoformalism in both form and content follows a kind of dream-logic exemplified by strange yet somehow familiar shapes against a backdrop of black. Dreams, like the psychedelic experience, can be epistemological…

Juan G. Sánchez Martínez When I dive into Microcosms: A Homage to Sacred Plants of the Americas (Jill Pflugheber & Steven F. White), I discover that this is no longer the time of that false dichotomy between technology and ancestry. On the contrary, we are in the time of the bridge between native and Eurocentric…

Jill Scott As an artist, I have not really worked with Native American plants but with microscopy, science, art and medical knowledge from Ethnobotany from Europe and Australia. Generally, I am fascinated about how people of a particular culture and region make use of their Indigenous native plants. How have these plants provided medicine and how are they harvested? How…