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 needs more work like this.
Jeremy Narby, author of The Cosmic Serpent: DNA and the Origins of Knowledge and Plant Teachers: Ayahuasca, Tobacco and the Pursuit of Knowledge
Sara Lewis Embodying Microcosms Begin by travelling to the plant index. Slowly move your awareness across the page, imagining that you are encountering new sentient beings, possibly new friends. Allow yourself to encounter the tapestry of color, shape, and lifeforms. With open awareness, notice if you become particularly drawn to one plant. Offer an embodied…
Michael Coe In a world where the lack of plant awareness is increasing while botanical knowledge and nature literacy are in decline, Microcosms emerges with impeccable timing and great promise while highlighting the plant anatomy of sacred plants and shamanic medicines. As such, Microcosms invites the viewer on a deeper journey inward, through botanical domains, to explore…
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…
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,…
Luis Eduardo Luna Microcosms Everything that exists harbors a depth not immediately perceptible, in turn part and fabric of a much larger inclusive reality. The tree is thus part forest, part shelter of an infinite number of surprising structures that, as in this case, are miraculously revealed through its own inner light. These prodigious images…
Ben Kamm Confocal microscopy is a tool for botanical exploration the way the Hubble Space Telescope, or more recent JWST, is to astronomy. These “stunning revelations of hidden beauty” elate and vitalize us with “exclamations of rapture”. This is frontier work, our first static glimpse at phytogenic interiority–an eerily familiar and yet utterly alien facet…
