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Artist Rob Kesseler presents a series
of beautiful microscope images, massively enlarged and printed
as banner installations in the Kew landscape
Pollen grains are tiny but tough, beautiful and resilient.
A series of stunning microscope images of wind borne UK native
pollen structures illustrate their delicacy, beauty and complexity.
The images, by artist Rob Kesseler, are presented as banner
installations in the landscapes of Kew for Go Wild.
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Rob Kesseler has been awarded a three year NESTA fellowship,
enabling him to work behind the scenes at Kew. He collects
pollen from British trees, grasses and wildflowers and uses
the latest microscope and photographic technology to create
dazzling images of the complex and diverse forms and structures
which are revealed. These beautiful images highlight the differences
between the pollen grains of different species.
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High magnification colour
images of pollen grains screen printed onto banners
Photos by Peter Bennett |
Kesseler has been working with Dr Madeline Harley of the
Micromorphology Unit at Kew, using scanning electron microscopes
to generate imagery from plant material such as pollen and
stem sections.
For this project, Kesseler has generated high magnification
colour images of native pollen grains from Kew’s cornfield,
collected during the summer of 2002. He has manipulated the
images and screen printed them onto the banners, which will
become a powerful metaphor for the wind borne pollen grains
themselves. The banners will each have associated labels to
explain which grains have originated from which plants.
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