Life Imitates Art: The Secret Life of Plants

This installation celebrates the resilience of plants through constant, sometimes imperceptible motions.

Spores drift. Insects stir. Carbon is sequestered. Oxygen is produced. Photons are synthesized. Veins glow and shrivel. Rain returns. Growth is a give and take. It asks us to embrace resilience not as a singular act but as a series of events built through many small, ongoing actions, even dormancy—rest.

The animation turns biological processes into choreography, blurring the line between ecology and art—life imitating art, and art revealing life.

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Cistus Nursery

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Portland Botanical Gardens

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Skylab