About Me and 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’ve been collecting flowers for over a decade, and my collection has grown to include thousands of plants. It features a mix of cultivated garden flowers and native wildflowers, many of which were grown from seed, collected from places like the Jerusalem Botanical Garden, the "Seeds from Zion" nursery, or even rescued from fields that were being cleared for construction.
To preserve these flowers, I scan them into the computer. By carefully arranging them on the scanner glass, I create high-resolution, two-dimensional images, that capture details often overlooked by the naked eye. The process is different from traditional photography, as the flower lays on the scanner’s glass without the usual constraints of gravity. This allows me to arrange the flowers in a way similar to the botanical illustrations of the past, that were an important tool for classifying and cataloging plants.
After scanning, I bring the flowers back into three dimensions through printing, cutting, and adding iron wires. Sometimes I restore them to their original size, while other times I play with scale, either reducing them to emphasize their delicacy or enlarging them to reveal hidden details and unique structures.