Blossfeldt

Blossfeldts' photogravures are unique.

Regard the eye, or rather the perspective it creates for your own eye

The plant is taken out of its context on a white background for analysis.

Alone or in a humbly created design sequence.

I am not wowed by its colour, but by the contrast that make apparent the strong sense of line and structure in these organisms.

Is that furniture ? Or a building from an unknown civilisation ? Or a fabulous sculpture from an artist I have not come across?

I feel Blossfeldts secret is that he transforms the fragile delicate substance of plants to something harder, ancient, and controlled.

Stone. They remind me of human created forms.

It has been mans ability for many years to carve rock to his vision.

He and it almost give the halls of human creativity an undeserved credit.

The photogravures present us with crafted objects of beauty that transcend time - that are a magical genius and are beyond this age because of their perfection.

I look into these strange sculptures and buildings and I look for the intelligence that gave birth to these forms.

But His scientific eye brings to life yet kills at the same time.

By transforming them to stone means they have become only artefacts.