Artist creates eerie miniature world out of moss only 5cm in diameter
A multimedia artist from Chile has created an eerie miniature version of a planet made from moss with stunning time-lapse footage orbiting the tiny world.
The artist behind the pocket-sized planet, Philip Klawitter, described the piece as: "an artwork about the creation of micro-planets, captured using hacked equipment to show an expanded reality."
The piece was grown inside a custom incubator.
His artistic style has been cited as: "[It] plays with the fact that as observers of nature, we only perceive a microscopic fraction of what is really out there.
"Our senses have a physical end, but reality has almost no limit.
"It continues in fractal patterns to dimensions we can't even imagine."
This footage was produced on June 3, 2017.
The artist behind the pocket-sized planet, Philip Klawitter, described the piece as: "an artwork about the creation of micro-planets, captured using hacked equipment to show an expanded reality."
The piece was grown inside a custom incubator.
His artistic style has been cited as: "[It] plays with the fact that as observers of nature, we only perceive a microscopic fraction of what is really out there.
"Our senses have a physical end, but reality has almost no limit.
"It continues in fractal patterns to dimensions we can't even imagine."
This footage was produced on June 3, 2017.