This photographer shares images of mostly seeds and plants and I was captured by a note on an image when she writes about this work as a project that took 5 years:
“Can plants think? Eat, make war, or die? And, if so, what do they feel when they prepare for death? The project Flora Supersum is a five year project that deals with the beauty in death and the struggle for survival, portrayed through the existence and will to live of plants. At a deeper level, the project also touches on issues of life and death, geographic borders and movement for all living beings“.
She later writes: “The strongest – the one with the cleverest way of dispersing its seeds – survives. It is a case of what Thomas Hobbes called bellum omnium contra omnes – the war of all against all. The garden becomes a theatre of war, a battlefield.’
“But it is also a place that calls to mind a kind of beauty. Seeds, whether embryonic or withering and decomposing in a state of extreme decay, are of course rarely portrayed in floras or gardening books, but they are just as typical for plants as are splendid blooms and leaves. Why? Could it be our fear of death that causes us to overlook their luminous promise? For hope and the future flourish amid the death and decay.”