Artist Diana Scherer researches the impact of coloured light on plant development in her new Spectrum Crops project initiated at Mediamatic. Photosynthesis: the process in plants that turns sunlight into chemical energy. It influences the shape, structure and colour of plants and explains why fauna in the tropics is often green and plentiful and turns yellow and sparse when placed in the dark. But what would happen if they are cultivated in the light of a specific colour? Do blue-grown herb leaves look different from orange ones? And will bushes standing in yellow light hold more fruit than those from a violet world?
Artist Diana Scherer researches the impact of colour on plant development in her new Spectrum Crops project initiated at Mediamatic.