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…

Azucena Castro Microcosms. A Homage to Sacred Plants of the Americas Why do we turn to plants to think the ecological crisis? How can we communicate with them? What images do they render? What role do the artist and technology play in rendering the vegetal world? What other modes of perception are enabled through plants?…

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…

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…

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…

Constantino Manuel Torres Browsing Jill and Steven’s spectacular website Microcosms: A Homage to Sacred Plants of the Americas, we are constantly reminded of two artists: the first is the Mazatec shaman-poet María Sabina (1894-1985), who chants: “I am the woman who looks into the insides of things.” Steven and Jill, through the resources provided by…