Elisabeth Kugler Microscopy is a wonderful method to reveal worlds that were previously too small to be seen. As modern microscopes produce multidimensional data, we can create visual representations of nature and share them with everyone. In recent years, using visuals from microscopy has become a great tool to engage people across all ages, backgrounds,…

Dana Sawyer For vast millennia before the advent of science, we, as a species, connected to the natural world through art and music, much of it related to sacred plants, which is not to suggest that science can’t do the same.  Connection is what matters most and whatever gets us to that realization is what…

Carlos Castaño-Uribe Science and art are not only more united today in their methodology, they also reinforce each other through the patterns of human perception that push us to the exploration of the environment around us.  Whether it is digital art or scientific microscopy, the approach of the microcosm is a gateway to the fascinating…

Giovanni Aloi The history of science and western art are intimately entwined—a keen determination to visually assess similarities and differences pervades both. This approach has nurtured a deep archival tendency—a wish to order, catalog, and hierarchize that over the past five centuries has constructed a limited conception of what we call nature. What we see…

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…

Richard Kay Microcosms works with layers of light. This is also how we at The Sentinel, through our plant-based medicine retreats, understand the process of the ever-expanding birth of consciousness. We may ask who is leading who in the symbiotic relationship between Plant-Teachers and humans with our pressing need to know ourselves. Like the waves…