My focus for these botanical subjects is the intersection between science and art. I recently obtained access to a Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) for the study of reproductive structures of flowering plants and have combined these with macro photography of the same plants in montaged images for paper and textile prints. The SEM images have been colorized using hues sampled from the macro photographs.
Cottage Campanulas combines multi–scaled images of wild and cultivated Campanulas using photography and images from a Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM). The SEM imagery captured Campanula reproductive structures as well as pollen at 36x to 800x magnification levels. The species sampled from the Campanulaceae family are Platycodon grandiflorus (Balloon Flower), Campanula portenschlagiana (Dalmation bellflower) and Campanula medium (Canterbury Bells). The flower reproductive structures are protandrous; the stamen mature first, the anthers release their pollen, then the pistil collects pollen as it elongates and unfurls. The hairs on the style retract, and then the stigma becomes receptive to pollen. The SEM samples are from Campanula medium. The butterflies are Siproeta stelens (malachite), a common butterfly species in Central and South America. $1400 91h x 48w