Accompanying Anya Gallacio’s installation at Mount Stuart on the Isle of Bute, this volume collects photographic images of seeds taken with an electro-scanning microscope at the Natural History Museum, London.
In her work, Gallaccio employs natural materials – flowers, fruit, water, grass – to create installations that transform the materials in fantastical and unexpected ways.
The artist’s installation at Mount Stuart features a pine tree where every flake of bark is coated in sparkling silver leaf, and six black-and- white photographs of conifer seeds that are taken with an electro-scanning microscope.
Alongside a poem by Joeri Bakker, the latter is drawn together in this volume to highlight the romantic and dream-like nature of this natural material.