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Feel like your living room could do with some plant love?

Terraria are enclosed glass containers with a beautiful display of slow-growing plants. They are a great way to get a dose of nature indoors.

These mini glasshouses are easy to maintain, and every creation is unique.

Where to begin?

You probably have a few glass containers around your house - from old jam jars to large pasta containers.

Pick any container that gives you enough room to get to a plant once it's in there.

No lid? No problem!

Open terraria are better for cacti and succulents. Tropical plants, like mosses or air plants, fare better when you create a humid environment so make sure there's a lid closed on tight.

You'll also need:

Small stones or pebbles: Grab some gravel from your front yard for the base layer to help drainage along

Soil: Potting soil is vital. Most soils will work fine for this, and you only need about a handful

Activated charcoal: This might not be in everyone's sheds, but easy to find. This will keep your terrarium water fresh and avoids bacteria growing

A selection of small tools: pencil/chopstick, little trowels, long spoons will do

Decoration: Anything you fancy to make it truly unique. Moss makes a colourful base, or little objects can bring it to life

Plants, of course

Pick the right plant

Choose a slow-growing and small plant for your terrarium.

Consider a range of leafy plants, succulents and cacti, picking the right one for your open (dry) or closed (humid) ecosystem.

Here are some suggestions, but there are many more out there:

Air plant (Tillandsia stricta)

Nerve plant (Fittonia)

Meadow spikemoss (Selaginella apoda)

Peat moss (Sphagnum moss)

Polka dot plant (Hypoestes phyllostachy)

Sweet woodruff (Galium odoratum)

Earth star bromeliad (Cyrpthanthus)

Inch plant (Tradescantia zebrina)

Hen and chicks (Echeverias)

Why not get creative and design a set of 'scenes', from a fairy tale woodland to an arid desert-scape?

Or keep it minimal and just have the one to start.

Setting up your terrarium

This can get messy, so protect your work surface if you're building this in your living room.

1. In your clean and dry container, layer up your pebbles to about 2-3cm.
Top tip: Vary your design by turning the container on its side instead, so the lid is pointing to the side rather than upwards

2. Next add the charcoal. You only need to scatter it across. (If you have some sphagnum moss, you can add it after this).

3. Layer on the potting soil. Ensure there is enough, so the plant roots sit comfortably deep inside it.

4. Your biggest plant goes in first.

Using your small trowel, or long-handled spoon, make a hole for the plant.

Gently place the plant into the soil. You can use a pencil-like tool to fill in and flatten the soil around it.

Make sure your plant has enough room to grow a little; don't cramp them against the glass.

If you have more, keep adding the rest of your plants.

5. Place in other stones, or maybe some moss or sand to cover up the soil if you want to.

6. Put in any finishing touches.

7. Close the lid - or don't!

Keeping your terrarium alive

Choose a spot with plenty of natural light (but not in direct sunlight)

Spray your terrarium with water every couple of weeks; or when the soil is dry to the touch

Keep an eye on it. These tiny greenhouses can form condensation when they are closed. A little is okay, but if the glass becomes foggy it might be that you've watered it too much

You can remove the top and dry it out for a few hours to clear it up.

The first terrarium

The Wardian case was an early form of a terrarium.

Famously, it was discovered by accident.

Dr Nathaniel Baghsaw Ward, a keen amateur naturalist, collected a moth cocoon in a sealed glass bottle along with some fern leaves and soil and left it for three years.

The plant started to sprout and grow in a little microcosm of its tropical environment, proving that plants could survive without watering in a closed glass case.

Ward built a glass box to help transport live plants across the world, testing it in 1833 on a journey between London and Sydney.

This Wardian case transformed botanical exploration, enabling collectors to safely send specimens back to Kew.

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.thoughttrails - jackie mulder fotografie

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This is a long document, of just me asking questions and researching. Take what you need, leave what you don't.

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The Keartons: inventing nature photography – in pictures

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Richard and Cherry Kearton were possibly the world’s first professional wildlife photographers. The brothers’ pioneering photos include the first shot of a bird’s nest with eggs and the first Masai lion hunt

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Chapter 8 on entangled Life by Merlin Shedrake touches on Mycophobic/ Mycophilic cutlures I mentioned.

I think it went more into this in another book I have so I can find that if anyone's interested

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Camberwell Old Feb 26-2025-Fergus Photos

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Finding the Mother Tree – A Conversation with Suzanne Simard

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Podcast Episode · Emergence Magazine Podcast · 04/02/2025 · 1h 7m

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Unbound is an independent foundation, dedicated to exploring the expanding outer limits of the photographic universe on a monumental scale, and Unseen’s most ambitious project to date. Boundary defying projects where photography crosses over into digital art, installations, performance art, sculpture, landscape art, virtual reality and video art, are selected and staged in a sensory exhibition in the 700 m2 industrial heritage Transformatorhuis hall at the fair’.

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Jackie Mulder on Instagram: "Happy to anounce that my work will be on show at 2 different places at photo fair UNSEEN in Amsterdam. At USEEN, you can find my work not only at the Gashouder in the booth of @janknegtgallery but also I have a big installation at UNBOUND in the ’Transformatorhuis’ near the entrance. Don’t miss it!

‘Unbound is an independent foundation, dedicated to exploring the expanding outer limits of the photographic universe on a monumental scale, and Unseen’s most ambitious project to date. 

Boundary defying projects where photography crosses over into digital art, installations, performance art, sculpture, landscape art, virtual reality and video art, are selected and staged in a sensory exhibition in the 700 m2 industrial heritage Transformatorhuis hall at the fair’.

UNSEEN & UNBOUND Amsterdam
September 20-22, 2024
Westergas, Amsterdam

#alternativephotography#altprocessphoto#alternativephotographicprocesses#collagephotography#altprocessphotography#experimentalphotography#alternativephotoprocess#poeticphotography#fineartphotography#mixedmedia#doubleexposure#stitching#ink#embroidered#embroidery#blackandwhitephotography#artphotographer#phototransfer#indianink#photocollage#installationart#artphotography#textileart#bigart#embroideredphoto"

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5,647 likes, 104 comments - jackiemulder on July 25, 2024: "Happy to anounce that my work will be on show at 2 different places at photo fair UNSEEN in Amsterdam. At USEEN, you can find my work not only at the Gashouder in the booth of @janknegtgallery but also I have a big installation at UNBOUND in the ’Transformatorhuis’ near the entrance. Don’t miss it!

‘Unbound is an independent foundation, dedicated to exploring the expanding outer limits of the photographic universe on a monumental scale, and Unseen’s most ambitious project to date. 

Boundary defying projects where photography crosses over into digital art, installations, performance art, sculpture, landscape art, virtual reality and video art, are selected and staged in a sensory exhibition in the 700 m2 industrial heritage Transformatorhuis hall at the fair’.

UNSEEN & UNBOUND Amsterdam
September 20-22, 2024
Westergas, Amsterdam

#alternativephotography#altprocessphoto#alternativephotographicprocesses#collagephotography#altprocessphotography#experimentalphotography#alternativephotoprocess#poeticphotography#fineartphotography#mixedmedia#doubleexposure#stitching#ink#embroidered#embroidery#blackandwhitephotography#artphotographer#phototransfer#indianink#photocollage#installationart#artphotography#textileart#bigart#embroideredphoto". 

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A possible method for layering photographs: Print images on transparent paper (such as tracing paper), combine them, and use backlight to reveal the layered effect.”

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Here’s a video from RedNote, a Chinese creative social media platform, where I saw someone using an interactive recorder to connect photos with sound.

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Recorded sounds from camberwell, ladywell cemeteries and peckham common (will need sign in to UAL account for access)

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Key Discussion Points

Nunhead Cemetery-- a hidden green space in South East London, which feels like an eco-oasis in an urban area. Interestingly, many of the green spaces in this part of the city are graveyards, raising the idea that nature and the dead are often forgotten together.

This led to a broader discussion on how humans are part of nature, not separate from it. Our bodies return to the earth after death, just as we transform plants, air, and water to sustain ourselves while alive. This entangled relationship makes Nunhead Cemetery an interesting space to explore.

Artistic Approaches:

• Installation Format: Ke suggested an installation to explore these ideas.

• Photography & Sound Collaboration: Dan proposed integrating photography and sound.

• Acoustic Ecology: Yifan introduced the concept of hearing human impact on nature, contrasting photography’s stillness with sound’s ability to capture presence and interaction.

We then discussed shifting the perspective: rather than just documenting nature, what if we document each other? Sound students could record photographers interacting with nature, while photographers capture sound students recording the environment. This layered approach—a gaze of a gaze—could challenge the anthropocentric view that places humans as observers and nature as a passive subject.

We can’t speak for nature’s experience, but we can document our roles and question our interactions. Perhaps this documentation itself could become part of the final piece, blending photography and projection.

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draft 1 of sounds shared on wednesday

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Types of microphones

Contact microphones: flat microphones that pic up vibrations (sound) through contact on a surface.

Hydrophones: microphones that pick up sound vibrations through water

Geophones: Microphones with a probe that pick up vibrations through the ground

Handheld recorders: we are using Zoom H5s. These are handheld devices with in built stereo microphones but also have XLR and Jack inputs to plug in external microphones. These are lightweight and portable. Sounds are saved onto an SD card

Shotgun microphones: These are sensitive microphones that pick up the very specific sounds they are pointed at. They can come in big cases with wind muffs (think boom microphones you see on film sets). This means you can record outside without wind distortion.

Binaural microphones: mics that sit in your ears like headphones and record what the listeners hears. We'll be playing around with these on Wednesday

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Some really interesting ones of contact mics and birds which I thought was cool!

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