Liquid Reflections by Julia Charlott Material:225g Fine Art Paper and sense of impossible scale

and sense of impossible scale make this one of the most extraordinary images from the golden age of natural history illustration — where empirical observation met seafarers' myth

nothing that competes with the subject

examined under the microscope

Orchideae is one of the hundred plates from Ernst Haeckel's Kunstformen der Natur (Art Forms in Nature

or muted brass tones — evokes the late-night atmosphere of a live performance

Liquid Reflections by Julia Charlott Material:225g Fine Art Paper and sense of impossible scaleLiquid Reflections plays with symmetry and dissolution a jellyfish mirrored and partially abstracted, so that the boundary between the animal and its watery surroundings begins to dissolve. Julia Charlott uses this formal device to explore the creature's natural camouflage: the more you look, the less certain you are of where the jellyfish ends and the ocean begins. Soft blues and aquamarine tones drift across the vertical composition, held together