What Is This? [Photography]

Green. Definitely alive, at one point. Is it an alien landscape, captured by some NASA probe and enhanced in post production? Hulk’s blood? Not quite, but close. The answer is a section more earthy than that:

It’s tree blood! Chlorophyll, to be precise. It’s been sandwiched on a microscope slide, photographed and dropped at your eyeballs by Tara Cronin, a photographer who created this image, and one who’s a little more intimate, as component of her ” T for Transition” art series.

The more intimate one is somewhat easier to determine:

Yup, blood. Her blood. She keeps a small vial in her fridge and apparently photographs it for art shows every now and then, because, well, why not? [ Discover ]

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