microcosm Archives

Julius Horsthuis
All These Unseen Worlds

My kind of art is showing something that exists. The fractal exists. I didn’t create it, I didn’t come up with it, I found it.

Alexey Kljatov
Macro Snowflakes

Despite their brief existence, snowflakes are a testament to the limitless creativity woven into the fabric of the natural world.

Molly Greene
False Vegetation Gods

I hope that I’m starting to play in that space between conventional ideas of what a human should be and what a human could be.

Santiago Ramón y Cajal
The Beautiful Brain

Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852-1934) was a Spanish neuroscientist and pathologist who is considered the father of modern neuroscience.

The Root Atlas
Unearthed Intelligence

The following drawings are taken from the Wurzelatlas, a book series that began in 1960 and is regarded as the standard work on root research.

Levon Biss
The Hidden Beauty of Seeds & Fruits

Each picture reveals minute features and textures that are normally invisible to the naked eye.

Marcelo Pinel
Cyber Mystic Garden

A laboratory in constant change, a small museum of desires and dreams that amuse the inner child.

Becoming
The Genesis of Life

The first stages of embryonic development are roughly the same for all animals, including humans.

Chris Bryan
Mocean

Watching this video, I felt captured by a primal feeling of awe. One of these rare moments when we glimpse how inconceivably vast and powerful this reality is.

Linda Westin
Illuminated Dendrology

These portraits of the woods are influenced by imaging neuroscience. Especially the colors are reminiscent of the artist’s experience with fluorescence microscopy.

Seeds
Time Capsules of Life

Seeds are the most complex organs produced by plants, capable of traveling space and time to ensure the biodiversity of our planet.

Piotr Kamler
In Search of Time

Polish animator Piotr Kamler explores the unfathomable and mysterious relationship between movement and time, matter and space.

Uri Shapira
Chemical bloom

The works of Uri Shapira expose environments of alternative truth, made of active metal vegetation and various chemical growths.

Alexander Ross
The primordial cell

Alexander Ross’ hyper worlds of cellular growth and green towering vines are one of a kind.

David S. Goodsell
The Machinery of Life

Beneath our everyday world there is a miniature universe of cells, trillions of tiny worlds, unseen and beautiful. This is the machinery of life and it never rests!

Alexey Kashpersky
The uncanny body

Why is it that looking at an open body causes such revulsion?

Suren Manvelyan
Your Beautiful Eyes

Be warned, looking into somebody else’s eyes might never be the same again after seeing the following pictures.

Saskia Olde-Wolbers
Drowned Worlds in Slow Motion

It is rarely possible that an artist’s vision pierces me to the heart at first glance. Dutch artist Saskia Olde-Wolbers did so. Her clear as a bell vision is unmistakable and unique.