Sharday Mosurinjohn What Do Psychedelic Plants and Fungi Want?: On the Microcosms Approach to Phytorelation The vital problem for which the Microcosms project has offered a salve is that for those who do not have a psychedelic practice or a practice of deep relationship with plants or fungi, there is no experiential framework to motivate heart-centred, phytorelational…

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…

Stephen J. Haggarty Commentary on Microcosms: A Homage to Sacred Plants of the Americas Toward a Digital Ethnobotany & Advancing the ‘Archaic Revival’ One rarely comes across a project of great merit, both scientifically and artistically, that makes original and significant contributions to both domains of creative pursuits. Yet this is the case with the…

Paco Calvo Enacting the bridge between Plant Science and the Arts takes some courage. For one thing, not everyone appreciates the value of transdisciplinarity. Even worse, to most it’s a single-track road: Artists, best-case scenario, benefit or find inspiration in botanical works. Seldom the opposite direction is travelled. And yet Science, writ large, can be…

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…

Joela Jacobs The mesmerizing images of plant minutiae reproduced on the Microcosms website invite us to see the world at a different scale. A microscopic image of pollen grains, for instance, renders what we would usually perceive as a layer of fine dust into an artwork that seems to be teeming with strange, beautiful objects. Focusing in…