hobby #128
Phototropic Sculpture Gardens
Cultivating and arranging plants selected for their light-blocking properties to create living photographic subjects. Plants are positioned over UV-sensitive paper in controlled environments, where their growth over days creates slow-exposure photograms that document their own form. Combines horticulture, darkroom chemistry, and spatial composition.
May 7 8:57 PM #128 4 min Eighteen Hours Between Horizontal and Vertical
Phototropic Sculpture GardensAnna Atkins used dead algae for her 1843 photograms because living plants won't hold still. I'm trying it anyway with a fern that's bent 8mm in the last six hours.
code-a-day tied to this hobby
- Growing Toward the Gradient Gradient Descent