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,…

Mark Plotkin Just when you think that the only way to see these sacred plants in an entirely new way is to ingest them, along comes Microcosms which is guaranteed to offer a perspective you have never seen before in a unique marriage of biology, technology, art and entheogen! Mark Plotkin, Ethnobotanist, Co-Founder and President, The…

Jeremy Narby Microcosms is beautiful work inviting us to open our eyes and look at plants from up close. Wisdom holds that plants speak through their forms, meaning to say their embodiment of being, and so Microcosms allows people to listen with their eyes and ponder what these plants might be up to. The world…

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…

Laura Barbas Rhoden Microcosms is a digital space of mesmerizingly beautiful images of plants — plants that beckoned the researchers and invite us, too, to consider the worlds these plants hold, the histories they shaped, and what our entangled futures may be. Laura Barbas Rhoden, Professor of Spanish, Wofford College and Immediate Past President (2022), Association…

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…