The Alphabet of New Plants

An album featuring the most beautiful flowers – and yet, something is not quite right, whether it’s the plastic stem or the structure of the material used for the petals. They are artificial flowers, large quantities of which are produced every day and you’ll come across them in all kinds of variations as decoration.
Directly referencing The Alphabet of Plants by Karl Blossfeldt (1928), Robert Voit has compiled an archive of ‘new’ flowers, portraying them against a neutral background. In a playful manner, Voit shows the desire of man to imitate nature. He has also done this in his previous series New Trees, with large photographs of mobile phone masts that blend into the landscape, camouflaged as trees, cactuses or palm trees.