PLANT MAGIC — Material Musing
You don’t need to look far for magic. We invite you to take a moment to ponder plants with us…
Impatiens Glandulifera, Karl Blossfeldt 1928
Detail of Fortune Tables
Look closely enough at a plant, and a whole world will unfurl. Look even closer, and the world as you know it might as well. Perhaps, because we are taught about photosynthesis as children, the remarkable nature of what that word means is lost to us as adults?
With their bodies plants eat light.
Let that sink in. Close your eyes even, and imagine the feeling of the sun on your skin.
Pumpkin Stems, Karl Blossfeldt 1923
A leaf or a flower, a branch or a tree… They are commonplace, these plant bodies that live all around us. They appear inert.
Yet we know that they eat light. They breath air. And we are starting to consider that they might hear. They might remember. They might communicate. They might collaborate.
Silphium Laciniatum (Rosin-Weed, Compass-Plant), Karl Blossfeldt 1915
Detail Martie Desk
