“The sight of a flower provokes in the mind much more significant reactions, because the flower expresses an obscure vegetal resolution” are the words Georges Bataille selected to indicate the evoking power of the blossoming figures in his essay The Language of Flowers (1929).

Miron Schmückle’s delicate paintings and their Latin titles, trick the viewers and their preconceived ideas, pretending to be something they are not. Hidden behind apparent botanical illustrations, the beauty of nature presents itself in the paintings in its most pure state, only to let the observer discover, that the plant-like elements depicted are fruit of the artist’s imagination. Schmückle exaggerates the beauty of nature, creating artificial life with flowers that don’t belong to Earth.