Florimaginations

I’ve always admired moss and the little tenacious weeds that crop up between cracks in pavement or walls. This piece layers a couple photographs taken from different angles of one such plant that particularly compelled me from its perch in the cracks of an Italian castle wall.

Florimaginations (2019) was created during the same period as many of my other algorithmic experiments, juxtaposing human and algorithmic attempts to process, catalogue, and make meaning of this networked perceptive experience. In this case, there was an additional layer of information: a photogrammetry 3D scan I had taken of the plant, using my phone. That level of information is not seen in this print, but used in experiments where I sought to transform this juxtaposed vision into three dimensions, using transfer paper to transfer the image onto a printed 3D scan of the plant itself.

It’s impossible for the piece to not resonate with other elements of my research: an obsession with objects as memory, “tiny data” (a concept later translated into the data-image), new modes of perception suited to the new ecologies of this age.