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Hybrid Botany
3D scan
When technology fails to replicate nature, what new potentials emerge?
Hybrid Botany is a multi-year body of research into what happens when 3D scanning and printing attempt to replicate a flower. Its delicate transparencies, hidden folds and layered structures resist digital capture, exposing the limits of both technologies. Instead of fixing these errors, we keep them: they bring a natural dimension back into the replicated object.
The printed surfaces come out fragile, and invite a quiet empathy. They raise a question for future materials: could they age, weather and evoke empathy, the way natural materials do over time?
Hybrid Botany is a multi-year body of research into what happens when 3D scanning and printing attempt to replicate a flower. Its delicate transparencies, hidden folds and layered structures resist digital capture, exposing the limits of both technologies. Instead of fixing these errors, we keep them: they bring a natural dimension back into the replicated object.
The printed surfaces come out fragile, and invite a quiet empathy. They raise a question for future materials: could they age, weather and evoke empathy, the way natural materials do over time?
The research grew into exhibited works, including wall compositions of ceramic tiles
and a printed flower displayed with its
support structures.
Credit:
Hybrid Botany with Renana Ire-Shy
Studio photography: Dor Kedmi
and a printed flower displayed with its
support structures.
Credit:
Hybrid Botany with Renana Ire-Shy
Studio photography: Dor Kedmi