All Things Great and Humboldt

This playful cabinet of natural and alchemical curiosities harkens back to an age of battling academic faculties, elite scientific fraternities, passionate explorers and museum curators, all captivated by the mysteries of morphogenesis. Originally titled “All Things Darwinian and Sacred” in order to confound religionists and rationalists alike, this work celebrates the anima telluris, that specific power of Earth to produce mineral crystals, microbes, cells and living bodies in such remarkable diversity and abundance independent of all human ratiocinations.