This isn’t even the most like birds a plant can look! This green birdbush grows in Australia and appears to make hummingbirds except, wait, there’s no hummingbirds in Australia. So what is this plant doing.
Today’s obsession: ‘Fasciation‘ in plants, which is the elaborate ‘warping’ or banding in the apical meristem (growing tip) of vascular plants occasionally caused by hormonal, genetic, bacterial, fungal, viral and environmental factors..
Celebrating the arrival of spring with Fasciation: fantasy vegetation right in your backyard.
Julie Heffernan — Self Portrait as Big World (oil on canvas, 2008)
This post is about Julie Heffernan’s method of representing herself as giant globes of carefully displayed vegetals and small artifacts, almost like she is a sort of giant bombonnière.
But then I discovered her own gallery site, and I realized she is much more than this, she is a whole explorer of her own world, which looks like the background of a Rococo painting under hallucinations, or a very rare 18th century fantasy landscape (below).
You know how much you love henna ❤️ I tried this vegetable dye from @garnier that gave me soft, untangled, revitalized and shiny hair: a real beauty treatment!
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