About

We are two designers, and this is our collection of plants.

Every specimen here was met in person, pressed flat, and given to light — lit from behind until the veins turn to stained glass, printed by sun on iron-salted paper, or impressed directly into the page. Light is the material. It always has been, from the first shadow a botanist laid on sensitised paper to the scanner humming in the next room.

Our subject is not botany. Botany counts and classifies, across millions of sheets, in better hands than ours. Ours is a smaller and older question: the four-hundred-year wish to hold a living thing still — and what each century's tools did to that wish. The woodcut herbal, the cyanotype, the flatbed scanner. Every era invents a new way to keep a flower, and loses the plant to keep the image.

Julian collects the plants and makes the images; light is what he works with. Jonathan builds the archive — its formats, its labels, its printed forms. The collection grows one specimen at a time, at the pace of seasons. That is the method, not a limitation.