Osiris Sinuhé González Romero Visionary Art, Ecodelícs and Microcosmic Phytoformalism.  The use of sacred plants with psychoactive properties and the development of technology can extend our vision. Both facilitate an understanding of universes and realities not perceptible to the naked eye during our ordinary states of consciousness. The creative use of psychoactive plants and confocal…

Ilana Berlowitz Microcosms is a wonderful collection of exceptional plants. Browsing through the artful yet instructive contents and gazing at the otherworldly looking images of earthly plants, the observer’s experience indeed is an allusion to the gifts these plants have been offering or teaching humans since times immemorial – a sudden shift of perspective, an…

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Rina C. Faletti The website Microcosms, opened in 2022, presents the inaugural results of a plant-art project that exhibits a visually striking and intellectually stimulating image collection of living plants taken under a microscope. Electric colors and bold patterns captured through the method the authors call microcosmic phytoformalism, a specialized confocal laser scanning microscopy, reveal intricate structures…

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…

Markus Berger Psychoactive plants and their ingredients, or the plants in their holistic manifestation of the one consciousness that we all are, sometimes serve as microscopes to look deep into our inner realities. Steven F. White and Jill Pflugheber’s work Microcosms: A Homage to Sacred Plants of the Americas, which combines art and science in…