Cologne-based artist and designer Hannes Hummel has lengthy been within the intersection of digital instruments and nature. Beforehand collaborating on an elaborate assortment of synthetic specimens, Hummel’s newest venture pushes the boundaries of floral design to a bizarrely stunning place.
Eighty unearthly botanical renderings comprise Hybrid Species, an enormous herbarium of imagined organisms. Translucent petals lined with brilliant veins, pistils dripping with a sticky liquid, and leaves winding like tubular tendrils propel the hyperrealistic flowers into an otherworldly realm.
A lot of Hummel’s work entails plugging photographs and pure patterns like tessellations and fractals into digital packages. For this collection, he skilled an A.I. mannequin together with his personal pictures and 3D fashions, exploring the personally generative potential of the instruments with out incorporating others’ copyrighted works. He writes:
Like nature, the method typically veers off in surprising instructions, feeling random at instances, whereas at others, it follows a transparent path, uncovering new potentialities. This intersection between human creativeness and machine-driven innovation fascinates me most in every flower design. On this collection, nature is portrayed not as it’s, however because it may very well be—reimagined, reshaped, and rendered by way of algorithms.
A fraction of Hybrid Species is proven right here, so head to Instagram for extra of Hummel’s digital creations.
