A Fondness for Ferns
May 5, 2008
I am very taken with ferns, I like the way they start out from the crown, tightly rolled, clenched like a babies fist
then they gradually unfurl
They are squeezing out of the smallest of spaces
I have a book, it was an impulse buy, but a good one, it’s features the photographs of Karl Blossfeldt (1865-1932) with reproductions of many of the plates from his book, ‘Art Forms in Nature,’ take a look they are stunning, Blossfeldt was a lecturer of sculpture at Berlins Arts and Crafts school and he seemed to like ferns as much as I do
Fascinating plants, which make wonderful photographic subjects! xx
Yes, I love ferns too. They look like nothing would deter them from what they are about to do. And with those stumps set so firmly and broadly in the ground it’s no wonder that ferns have been around since pre-history. In my family we call ferns ‘dinosaur food’, because apparently they were.