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These time capsules of life for plants familiar and strange are presented in minute, beautiful detail. Microphotographs of the tiniest seeds and extraordinarily detailed cutaway images of larger seeds are combined with text that explains the formation and maturation of seeds and describes how they find their way to becoming a copy of the parent plant.
24 de jul. de 2022 · Seeds: Time Capsules of Life. My work is about containment.This time, however, seeds. The original intention had been to create small sculptures of seeds. However, walking around parks and gardens, squatting on my haunches, examining tiny plants, amazed at their exquisite forms, I realised that to copy Nature is not only foolish, but nigh on ...
1 de mar. de 2007 · Seeds: Time Capsules of Life, Kesseler Rob and Stuppy Wolfgang. 0+000 pp. Papadakis Publishers, London, UK. 2006. ISBN 1901092666 £35. www.papadakis.net - Volume 17 Issue 1
Seeds, produced together with Dr. Wolfgang Stuppy a seed morphologist from the Millennium Seed Bank, Wakehurst Place, is a response to this opportunity for artistic research to make a unique contribution to the understanding and appreciation of an organism vital to the preservation of bio-diversity. Pollen was recognised as a benchmark for art and science collaboration amongst botanists at Kew ...
Anyone who believes that life and art are inseparable will want to purchase this book immediately." -- Choice The publication of the first edition of Seeds broke new ground by melding art and science in a beautiful yet authoritative examination of the design and function of seeds.
These time capsules of life for plants familiar and strange are presented in minute, beautiful detail. Microphotographs of the tiniest seeds and extraordinarily detailed cutaway images of larger seeds are combined with text that explains the formation and maturation of seeds and describes how they find their way to becoming a copy of the parent plant.
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