Permanent Botanicals
"Permanent Botanicals" illustrates the uncanny nature of artificial foliage while exploring a common depiction of nature’s elegance. Using 19th and 20th century printing processes created for duplication and botanical studies, I investigate new species of botanical specimens created for sale at department stores such as Michaels, Home Goods, and for commercial displays. As a permanent homage to our admiration of aesthetes in nature, the faux houseplants serve as commercial monuments in our domestic spaces, which confront our motive in seeking beauty, symmetry, and balance.
Alois Auer’s Nature Prints: Faux plants impressed onto lead plates and printed. 2017 - 2018
Faux plant embossments from lead plates. 2018
Photograms of faux trees. 2017 - 2018
