UMWELT, German for ‘environment’ is the theory, created by Jakob von Uexküll (1864-1944) that explains how the world is experienced by a particular organism. It is the belief, that every living creature must surely inhabit a world of its own…
This photographic series documents a plant’s own journey from seed to sapling in sixteen days – all that would usually happen underground and out of sight from our human eyes. This is why I chose to bring it to life, but also because of the magic and alienness it lures. It aims to kindle a more platonic connection with plants, revealing the intertwined similarities of the development of life between plants and animals, not indifferent to an embryo in a womb, mother to child, or mother to nature. It offers to see plants our companions, living life alongside us everyday.