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

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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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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.

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