About My Art
I'm Osnat, I studied biology and statistics at Tel Aviv University, bioinformatics at the Weizmann Institute, and in the summer of 2023 I finished studying art at The Midrasha, Beit Berl and now I'm a (certified!) artist .
I would define myself as a collector of flowers, or more precisely, a collector of the most beautiful moments in the life cycle of flowers. I started my collection over a decade ago and today it contains thousands of moments of flowers frozen in time. The collection includes "moments" of cultivated garden flowers as well as of protected wild flowers, many of which were collected from vegetation that grew in the Jerusalem Botanical Garden, the wild flower nursery "Zareim Mezion", or were rescued from a field intended for construction.
I save these moments by scanning the flowers into the computer. By delicately arranging the flowers on the scanner glass, a high-resolution two-dimensional image is created. This process reveals complex details that often escape the eye or even the camera lens. Unlike photography, when the flowers are placed on glass The scanner is free from the usual limitations of gravity and it allows me to arrange them in a way reminiscent of the botanical illustrations of the past. The tradition of botanical illustration began around the 50 AD as a means of identifying plants with medicinal properties of the flora and was at its peak between 1750 and 1850 when it was used both as a research tool and to catalog the collections of the botanical gardens and private gardens of wealthy patrons who hired the illustrators for this purpose.
After scanning, I bring the flowers back to life. Using printing, cutting, and adding iron wires, she returns them to their three-dimensional form. Sometimes, this is achieved by restoring the flowers to their original size, on other occasions, the process involves playing with scale, Reduce the flowers to emphasize their delicacy or enlarge them to reveal details hidden or unique structures.