The Life of Plants economy As the flowers fade

As the flowers fade

Tauba Auerbach studies the boundaries of perception through an art and design practice grounded in math

the photographs are rigorously composed and richly detailed

—resulting in second-hand furnitures which are new to all of us (including to Gio)

The Life of Plants economy As the flowers fadeWe barely talk about them and seldom know their names. Philosophy has always overlooked them; moreeven biology considers them as mere decoration on the tree of life. And yet plants give life to the Earth: they produce the atmosphere that surrounds us, they are the origin of the oxygen that animates us. Plants embody the most direct, elementary connection that life can establish with the world. In this highly original book, Emanuele Coccia argues that,