Acoustic Botany by Keita Akiyama of the Denka Bijutsu collective.

In the project Akiyama imagines “What if there existed, someplace in this world, acoustic plants? Why would they make sounds? How would they make sounds? And what would they sound like?”.

Grass Mirror by h2o Architects

About the project:

Antique philosophers often turned to nature for contemplation. Nature was used as a mirror. The Grass Mirror project revisits, in a way, this idea of contemplation. But to convey a contemporary image requires further complexity. Nature overflows, it is multiplied by the different reflections. One’s own image is fragmented. Frontiers between nature and culture are blurred. It is the twist (geometric deformation) of the rectangle which reveals this nature. The plants sit in the hollow of the deformation. This basic figure can be repeated indefinitely, from object to surface and surface to object. The whole is a little more than a multiple of its parts… 

–Miguel Mazeri, anthropologist

Katinka Matson flatbed scans flowers and then blows them up into vividly detailed giant scale prints. 

Just a small sampling of the many types of ferns that can be found at the Biodiversity Heritage Library

Macro photographer Anna S finds beauty in life and death and the shades in between.

Harvest by Dasha Regel

Macro photography by Colleen Parker

Beautiful nature patterns by Lisa Frank

Frank on her work:

I make large scale photographs that depict complex patterns derived from nature while referencing traditional wallpaper design. Densely ornamental, my artwork draws upon my textile design background and refers to the interior decoration documents of Britain’s Aesthetic Movement of the late 19th century. The designer, William Morris, is particularly relevant for the ways his design work drew upon similarly themed subject matter, showing a love for all natural things and designing with an assurance gained from observing nature first hand.

Bearing witness to haphazard wonders, the activity of taking pictures as I walk in the woods makes for a visual diary – it illuminates my position within the natural world while documenting changing evidence of the ordinary and the astonishing. The inter-relationships between all of nature’s corresponding parts creates the true “pattern” of my work. Season after season I trace nature’s comforting repetition. The resulting subject matter for my photos changes with the calendar taking notice and making patterns of icicles one week and morels just a few weeks later. All things are equal: I am as captivated by the full and magnificent bloom of autumn color as I am to the existential challenges implicit in its fade and decay. My pattern-making forms a personal, arbitrary, asymmetrical time chart that is deeply resonant for me and key to my understanding of what it means to be alive and of this world.

Read the rest of her statement here.

Some cool and refreshing macro photography by Joni Niemelä 

The Microworld of Susumu Nishinaga

Carne Griffiths makes intoxicating work from actual intoxicants. Using calligraphy ink, graphite and liquids, such as tea brandy, vodka and whisky, he aims to capture “the flow of line and the ‘invisible lines’ that connect us to the natural world”. 

A few gems from the fabulous Kuriositas gallery Earth’s Liquid Jewelry.

Metamorphose by Carsten Witte captures different states of plants from budding to evanescence. 

These vintage prints on book pages are available from the Once Tattered Etsy store.

Biophilia by Vladimir Stankovic

About:

The biophilia hypothesis suggests that there is an instinctive bond between human beings and other living systems. The term “biophilia” literally means “love of life or living systems.” It was first used by Erich Fromm to describe a psychological orientation of being attracted to all that is alive and vital. Edward O.Wilson uses the term in the same sense when he suggests that biophilia describes “the connections that human beings subconsciously seek with the rest of life.” He proposed the possibility that the deep affiliations humans have with nature are rooted in our biology…