Days Are as Grass. On Karel Miler’s “Felt by Fresh Grass,” Plant Intelligence and Expanded Aesthetics

Fuller, Matthew. 2025. Days Are as Grass. On Karel Miler’s “Felt by Fresh Grass,” Plant Intelligence and Expanded Aesthetics. INSERT. Artistic Practices as Cultural Inquiries(7), ISSN 2813-2904 [Article]

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Abstract or Description

Karel Miler’s Felt by Fresh Grass (1976) is a performance-photograph in which the artist lies down on a bank of grass, temporarily addressing the sensory world of the grass. This article invites a consideration of Miler’s work via theories of plant communication and intelligence, the photographic time of the camera as a medium, and the question of how it might contribute to an expanded ecological aesthetics.

Item Type:

Article

Identification Number (DOI):

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15768436

Keywords:

Aesthetics, Ecology, Environmental Becoming, Photography, Plant Intelligence

Departments, Centres and Research Units:

Media, Communications and Cultural Studies

Dates:

DateEvent
June 2025Published

Item ID:

39137

Date Deposited:

09 Jul 2025 12:12

Last Modified:

09 Jul 2025 12:12

Peer Reviewed:

Yes, this version has been peer-reviewed.

URI:

https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/39137

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