S&S W11 Inspiration and research
- HildeMaassen
- Aug 11, 2019
- 5 min read
Updated: Aug 15, 2020
A list with inspiration, beautiful or special projects that I was pointed out or encountered.
A time for me to see what is happening and done with (mainly) flowers.
Pascual Martínez + Vincent Sáez; The tree of life is eternally green
Site: https://ninorojo.com/
This book contains landscape photos, portraits, drawn and dried flowers. The drawn flowers are done by Minerva Luca. The design is done by Tiffany Jones. The book consists of different types of paper: with lines, transparent paper and foldouts. Cemre mentioned it after I showed her my prints. I love that different subjects are brought together in a total combined story.
Lukas Birk; Afghan Boxcamera https://www.afghanboxcamera.com
A research project that influences communication, motivates people and motivates them. Admiration for this project and I immediately want to build a box camera myself. But because I must not forget to focus, I leave this to my daughter who has already built several cameras herself. The deadline for the WIP portfolio, the oral and this CRJ is in a week.
Jan de Coster,
Magnolia sulu.be/magnolia
Jan builds and experiments with robots, kinesics, interactivity. All very impressive and done and told about with humor. He build a had that responts to the mood of the wearer by opening or closing.This mood is measured by head-gestures, skin-conductivity, body temperature or even a brain-activity interface.

Anouk Wipprecht
Tech-minded fashion wants to make fashion ahead of her time, combining the latest in science and technology. The inspiration often spiders, animals and insects. What she makes reacts when people come close. The flowers at the bottum wel open and start to give light.
Neil Mendoza
"Maker of stuff". He combines sculpture, electronics and software to bring inanimate objects and spaces to life. By decontextualizing objects with technology and vice versa, the constituent parts of his work can be looked at in a new ways. In the house party the flowers in the vases will move allong with all the objects in the room.
Erwin Olaf
Erwin Olaf is the best know photographer of the Netherlands as this moment. He made a lot of images with flowers in a vase. Here you see the images alone but they were made as a diptych with portrraits. This because he liked to do something out-of-sync with the portraits. The still-lives are meant to be timeless. I get a vintage, '60/'70's vibe.
Hans Withoos
Hans has an ancestor, was a 17th century painter. The photos you see here are inspired by the paintings. Parts of the paintings form the background. This for the exhibition Withoos meets Withoos. Hans's work has a very rococo, overdone appearance where the light, styling and every detail is important. We talk sometimes, because we both walk the dog in the same place.
Macoto Murayama
This artist uses cut-edge software and 3D modeling to create Botanical Illustrations of the 21st century. The work reveals intricate connections between visual art and science, provoking frantic conversations about ancient tradition of depicting flowers and its possible future in Digital Age. To me it looks like a kind of mapping flowers and x-rays.
Man Ray
Very famous for his experiments. He called the rayograph the laying down of objects on paper. In principle, it is what Anne Atkins had already done. The photo in the middle is a solarisation. Done during the develop process.
Imogen Cunningham
Very clasic butLooking at the shape and light.
Edward Weston
Weston's work is almost architecture. Seeing this work, I always immediately think of Gaudi, who uses nature as a source of inspiration for his buildings.
Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
This are problebly not all flowers, but I could see them that way. Love the lines, experiments and the depth.
Karl Blossfeldt
Again about lines, repetition and harmony
Alexander Rodchenko
Constructivism. The first image is problably not a flower or tree, but this is what I see in it.
Robert Mapplethorpe
Abstract and lines but there is a story there to read.
Bill Beckley
War of the roses, very experimental.
The photo in the middle reminds me of one of my own projects:
Daniel Koehler and Rasa Navasaityte
Lab for Environmental Design Strategies is an architectural research practice founded 2008 by Daniel Koehler and Rasa Navasaityte. Very fashinating what you can make with easy materials. It looks like architecture but I also see nature, flowers.
Mélodie Fenez
She figured out a way to harness the sound plants make.

Kalle Hamm, Dzamil Kamanger
Immigrant Garden (audio)
They work with plants that everybody knows in Finland but that not originally come from there. A methaphor for refugees and immigrants. Thet recorded the sound that pants make. They use an old recordingtechnoc developed by Jagadish Bose (India, '20s-'30s) and Ivan Gunar (Soviet Union,'60s-'70s). It is based on measuring the electrophysiology of plants.
The sound of the video here is based on recorings from plants.
Mariah Robertson
An experimental way to exhibit. Inage on the right is a book.
Visa Suonpää and Patrik Söderlund (IC-98) The House of Khronos
An artis duo waiting for the time and see how a house landscape change overtime, doing nothing themselves but let nature in. They make animations, the one here is very interesting because they have the same kind of sound as I have with my flowers (not as high or fast)
Heidi Norton
Fasinating installations. Plants and light being the most important aspects. Mixed media.
Jaakko Kahilaniemi
He owns 100 hectare of forest that he is investigating with the goal to understand it.
Riitta Päiväläinen
Makes installations in nature with of second-hand clothing and flea market fabrics. This represents its former wearer; somebody was present. She builds a scupture with it.
Jorma Puranen
He makes work of the past an present. In Roland Barthes’ terms, there and then becomes an existence of here and now. Light and reflections are very important in his work. Parts are blurred out.
Tuula Närhinen
Very intersting the way she builds instruments to be able to study waves or extrudes colors of plants. All very fascinating; leaning against science.
Anita Jensen
What is interesting is the way she makes her own prints. She is inspired by Japenese beauty and combines this with her personal and familiar photohraphs to find new perspectives.
She uses all kind of print technics such as multicolored intaglio prints, ‘Rorschach tests’ using very large copper plates etched with sugar lift and relief printed. Using the photo polymer and ImagOn gravure techniques and large-format pigment printing with inkjet technology. Experimenting with Western and Japanese materials with the technique,
Jiang Shi
Series "Love Letters" with photos of burning flowers; a metaphor: the flowers stand for life, the blue flames stand for eternity and the continuity of being.
Sandra Kantanen
Is it a picture of reality? She started to combine photography with painting to see what photography is not. Some of it looks a bit like my scanning effects.
Marjukka Vainion
She often uses the photogram technics. The work all has a ground, spirit of place or is imagined. The other aspect is figure. I like them for there shapes and lines in all there simplicity.
Anya Gallaccio
She uses often organic material. This resolves in natural processes of transformation and decay, often with unpredictable results.
Paul Cummins and Tom Piper,
888,246 ceramic poppies in the installation: "Blood Swept Lands And Seas Of Red,”
Flowers being symbolic; these commemorate each and every British or Colonial fatality from World War 1.

Amanda Clyne
A combination of painting with photography.
Joshua Werber
Making a flowerpeace every day for instagram as a competition. Act of creation.
Hans Silvester
He published a book with images of people wearing flowers and plants.
I had to think of a vest I made, for the photo, with garden cress. (not editted)

Barbara Wildenboer
She alters for instance books. Thay become a kind of floral.

Scott Hazard
https://scotthazard.net/home.html Makes amazing things with paper, look 3d and landscapes.

Conclussion; this was a great search for flowers and makers who use them as inspiration.
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