Metamorphoses
Human and plant as one metabolism: we breathe out what feeds them, they breathe out what keeps us alive. The video works show this transformation – head becomes blossom, blood becomes leaf green.
Series Haemo-Chlorophyll · Text “Metamorphosis” by Helmut Hein (German)
Communication
Through breath we communicate with plants. With every exhalation (CO₂) we feed them, and they produce the oxygen we need to live.
Kinship
The molecules of haemoglobin (blood pigment) and chlorophyll (leaf green) are identical except for their central atom: haemoglobin holds an iron atom, chlorophyll a magnesium ion.