A sea anemone looks like a flower. It is an animal.
Every one of those soft waving tentacles is loaded with microscopic harpoons called nematocysts. When one triggers, it fires in about 700 nanoseconds — 700 billionths of a second.
That is one of the fastest movements in all of biology. The accelerating tip pulls something in the order of five million g, and hits with a pressure in the range of a bullet — enough to punch through the shell of a crustacean.
It is happening, constantly, in a thing you would describe as a plant.
This is the whole idea
NEOTENE is built on one thesis: the most beautiful things on Earth are the ones nobody looks at closely. Not the landscape — the mechanism underneath it, at a scale you were never going to see.
We go close enough that the mechanism becomes the picture. One series per organism or structure.
Editions of 25. Then never again.
Large-format archival pigment prints. Numbered, issued with a certificate of authenticity, and never reprinted.
Deliberately unsigned — every piece is entered in a public register instead, so you can see where all twenty-five are in the world at any time. A signature can be forged. A register cannot be quietly rewritten.
The first edition has not released yet
New drops go to the list before they go on sale. One email a month, at most.