Bestiaries are ancient manuscripts that weave together tales of every kind of creature—real or imagined—alongside stories of stones and trees. Rather than striving for naturalistic description, these texts cast the world as a mirror of divine truth. Offering moral lessons through the lives and the natures of beings great and small, all bestiaries trace their […]
There are approximately 1600000000000000 blades of grass on Earth, but grass is an underrated plant. Everyone just walks and sits on it. For a number of years, Anne Geene has been collecting grass from well-known lawns of grass or grass growing on famous places. From football stadiums to cemeteries, from the Roman Forum to the […]
The Book of Plants is a eulogy on plants in all their appearances. It is a quest for specimens with various types of formations and deformations giving this project an almost teratological dimension. An expedition through the microcosm of leaf, bud and flower toward branch, stem and trunk, falling in that macrocosm of grass, herb, […]
n Vestibulum 4 Anne Geene raises the issue of the human desire to collect, organize and know. In so doing, she subtly refers to the passion for collecting of Helene Kröller-Müller, the museum’s founder. Helene regarded her collection, meticulously recorded in her collection book, as closed. But can ‘a carefully selected series of works of […]
How do you identify a plant or a tree. Usually you look at the shape of the leaf. But what happens when they show such diversity as in the following cases. All the leaves were picked at one moment and from one individual plant or tree. (Book of Plants)
Eternal Herbarium is a combination of conservated organic material and its photographic counterpart. This way an eternal comparison between the original color and texture and its degenerating organic equivalent. (Book of Plants)
Late 19th century and early 20th century drawings of routes of individual ants to their nest. They show the ‘Turnian nest search’. An eratic, unexplained for route just before they arrive to the entrance of their nest. But they also tell something about the human urge to orden and know everything.
Nature usually does not take much notice of national borders but at a time when populists emphasize our nationalistic feelings, and national borders are often questioned (fe. when it comes to refugees), it is time for a challenge. How big are the differences in quality, vigor and power between sprouts of Lepidium sativum from the various countries of Europe? May the best plant win. For every game 11 seeds of Lepidium Sativum per […]
This monograph offers an introduction to the life, work and opinions of the universal photographer U. (1955 – 2016), a man who produced more pictures of more different subjects in more different styles than any other photographer to date. In U., numerous features of other photographers, philosophers, scientists and collectors can be recognized, but closest […]
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