"The collective Beauty of Science unveils the art series Crystal Garden: Seasons, where rows of glass Petri dishes show how colorful crystals naturally grow within them. Unfolding as a collaboration between the artist and a natural material, it is the former that establishes the conditions, such as the temperature, saturation, container, and pigment, and then steps back to let the crystallization take place."
"Then, over hours and days, they thicken. Branches multiply. Clusters gather and bloom. What begins as a controlled chemical solution becomes a terrain dense with spires, lattices, and mineral thickets. Each composition distills the imagery of a season and the colors associated with the respective period, hence the title Crystal Garden: Seasons: cool blues and whites, saturated greens, deep reds, burnished golds, and more."
Beauty of Science created Crystal Garden: Seasons using rows of glass Petri dishes to reveal how crystals naturally grow. The creator prepares conditions—temperature, saturation, container, and pigment—and then allows crystals to develop autonomously. Initial pale filaments spread across the shallow dish floors, then thicken into branches, clusters, spires, lattices, and dense mineral thickets over hours and days. Each composition evokes a season through palette and form, featuring cool blues and whites, saturated greens, deep reds, burnished golds, and overlapping lively shades. The series frames a garden as a space where human intention and natural growth intertwine.
Read at designboom | architecture & design magazine
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