A World of Scale

2017

In the winter of 2017, Victor van Keuren was an artist in residence at the “Fundacion de Artistas” in Merida in Mexico. Merida served as a fantastic base to explore the region and become more familiar with this exceptional part of Mexico. His photographic theme for this project was: A World of Scale – Indigenous plants of the Yucatan. “We live in a world of scale. From the scale of Cosmos to the scale of the microscopic. All forms have a universality and a primal recognition. As I spent time in the jungles of the Yucatan one of its most impressive features was the plant life, so varied, so present and so abstract. These images are my expressions of the worlds at our feet, the amazing forms that are sometimes overlooked. We live in an amazingly diverse, beautiful and abundant world, none more than the jungles of the Yucatan.” – Victor van Keuren

Black-and-white close-up of tightly clustered rounded leaves

Fine plant fibers hanging in curved parallel strands

An abstract close-up of a plant opening framed by textured folds

Radiating ribs of a fan-shaped palm leaf in black and white

A tangle of pale roots and stems against rough bark

Deep folds converging around a dark opening in a plant surface

A dense cluster of small ridged botanical forms

Overlapping elongated seed-like forms on a textured plant surface

A pale tapered plant form framed by dark folded edges

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