{"id":1085,"date":"2023-10-26T14:52:52","date_gmt":"2023-10-26T12:52:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thomasfromm.de\/?page_id=1085"},"modified":"2025-12-31T07:49:41","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T06:49:41","slug":"12-leafs","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.thomasfromm.de\/?page_id=1085&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"12 leafs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pl-1085\"  class=\"panel-layout\" ><div id=\"pg-1085-0\"  class=\"panel-grid panel-no-style\" ><div id=\"pgc-1085-0-0\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\" ><div id=\"panel-1085-0-0-0\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_sow-editor panel-first-child panel-last-child\" data-index=\"0\" ><div class=\"so-widget-sow-editor so-widget-sow-editor-base\">\n<div class=\"siteorigin-widget-tinymce textwidget\">\n\t<h1>12 leafs<\/h1>\n<div class=\"foogallery foogallery-container foogallery-default foogallery-lightbox-foobox fg-gutter-10 fg-center fg-default fg-light fg-shadow-outline fg-loaded-fade-in fg-hover-fade fg-transparent-overlays fg-ready\" id=\"foogallery-gallery-1128\" data-foogallery=\"{&quot;item&quot;:{&quot;showCaptionTitle&quot;:true,&quot;showCaptionDescription&quot;:true},&quot;lazy&quot;:true,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;data-src-fg&quot;,&quot;srcset&quot;:&quot;data-srcset-fg&quot;}\" data-fg-common-fields=\"1\" >\r\n\t<div class=\"fg-item\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thomasfromm.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/PA211515-Kopie-I-Kopie-1.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"Philodendron, Acrylstifte auf Papier, 29,7 x 42 cm, 2023\" data-attachment-id=\"1080\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img title=\"Philodendron, Acrylstifte auf Papier, 29,7 x 42 cm, 2023\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" data-src-fg=\"https:\/\/www.thomasfromm.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2023\/10\/PA211515-Kopie-I-Kopie-1\/506541963.jpg\" class=\"fg-image\" \/><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">Philodendron, Acrylstifte auf Papier, 29,7 x 42 cm, 2023<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thomasfromm.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/PA211527-Kopie-I-Kopie.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"Aesculus, Acrylstifte auf Papier, 29,7 x 42 cm, 2023\" data-attachment-id=\"1079\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img title=\"Aesculus, Acrylstifte auf Papier, 29,7 x 42 cm, 2023\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" data-src-fg=\"https:\/\/www.thomasfromm.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2023\/10\/PA211527-Kopie-I-Kopie\/2350033224.jpg\" class=\"fg-image\" \/><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">Aesculus, Acrylstifte auf Papier, 29,7 x 42 cm, 2023<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thomasfromm.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/PA211526-Kopie-I-Kopie.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"Prenanthes, Acrylstifte auf Papier, 29,7 x 42 cm, 2023\" data-attachment-id=\"1078\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img title=\"Prenanthes, Acrylstifte auf Papier, 29,7 x 42 cm, 2023\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" data-src-fg=\"https:\/\/www.thomasfromm.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2023\/10\/PA211526-Kopie-I-Kopie\/2190710381.jpg\" class=\"fg-image\" \/><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">Prenanthes, Acrylstifte auf Papier, 29,7 x 42 cm, 2023<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thomasfromm.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/PA211525-Kopie-I-Kopie.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"Ipomea, Acrylstifte auf Papier, 29,7 x 42 cm, 2023\" data-attachment-id=\"1077\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img title=\"Ipomea, Acrylstifte auf Papier, 29,7 x 42 cm, 2023\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" data-src-fg=\"https:\/\/www.thomasfromm.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2023\/10\/PA211525-Kopie-I-Kopie\/989816766.jpg\" class=\"fg-image\" \/><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">Ipomea, Acrylstifte auf Papier, 29,7 x 42 cm, 2023<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thomasfromm.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/PA211524-Kopie-I-Kopie.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"Sanguinaria, Acrylstifte auf Papier, 29,7 x 42 cm, 2023\" data-attachment-id=\"1076\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img title=\"Sanguinaria, Acrylstifte auf Papier, 29,7 x 42 cm, 2023\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" data-src-fg=\"https:\/\/www.thomasfromm.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2023\/10\/PA211524-Kopie-I-Kopie\/880695451.jpg\" class=\"fg-image\" \/><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">Sanguinaria, Acrylstifte auf Papier, 29,7 x 42 cm, 2023<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thomasfromm.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/PA211523-Kopie-I-Kopie.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"Acer, Acrylstifte auf Papier, 29,7 x 42 cm, 2023\" data-attachment-id=\"1075\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img title=\"Acer, Acrylstifte auf Papier, 29,7 x 42 cm, 2023\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" data-src-fg=\"https:\/\/www.thomasfromm.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2023\/10\/PA211523-Kopie-I-Kopie\/2069662452.jpg\" class=\"fg-image\" \/><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">Acer, Acrylstifte auf Papier, 29,7 x 42 cm, 2023<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thomasfromm.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/PA211522-Kopie-I-Kopie.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"Syneilesis, Acrylstifte auf Papier, 29,7 x 42 cm, 2023\" data-attachment-id=\"1074\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img title=\"Syneilesis, Acrylstifte auf Papier, 29,7 x 42 cm, 2023\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" data-src-fg=\"https:\/\/www.thomasfromm.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2023\/10\/PA211522-Kopie-I-Kopie\/1977464273.jpg\" class=\"fg-image\" \/><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">Syneilesis, Acrylstifte auf Papier, 29,7 x 42 cm, 2023<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thomasfromm.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/PA211520-Kopie-I-Kopie.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"Macleaya, Acrylstifte auf Papier, 29,7 x 42 cm, 2023\" data-attachment-id=\"1073\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img title=\"Macleaya, Acrylstifte auf Papier, 29,7 x 42 cm, 2023\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" data-src-fg=\"https:\/\/www.thomasfromm.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2023\/10\/PA211520-Kopie-I-Kopie\/399769578.jpg\" class=\"fg-image\" \/><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">Macleaya, Acrylstifte auf Papier, 29,7 x 42 cm, 2023<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thomasfromm.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/PA211519-Kopie-I-Kopie.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"Monstera, Acrylstifte auf Papier, 29,7 x 42 cm, 2023\" data-attachment-id=\"1072\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img title=\"Monstera, Acrylstifte auf Papier, 29,7 x 42 cm, 2023\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" data-src-fg=\"https:\/\/www.thomasfromm.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2023\/10\/PA211519-Kopie-I-Kopie\/3606372338.jpg\" class=\"fg-image\" \/><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">Monstera, Acrylstifte auf Papier, 29,7 x 42 cm, 2023<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thomasfromm.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/PA211518-Kopie-I-Kopie.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"Quercus, Acrylstifte auf Papier, 29,7 x 42 cm, 2023\" data-attachment-id=\"1071\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img title=\"Quercus, Acrylstifte auf Papier, 29,7 x 42 cm, 2023\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" data-src-fg=\"https:\/\/www.thomasfromm.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2023\/10\/PA211518-Kopie-I-Kopie\/3945223965.jpg\" class=\"fg-image\" \/><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">Quercus, Acrylstifte auf Papier, 29,7 x 42 cm, 2023<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thomasfromm.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/PA211517-Kopie-I-Kopie.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"Philodendron, Acrylstifte auf Papier, 29,7 x 42 cm, 2023\" data-attachment-id=\"1070\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img title=\"Philodendron, Acrylstifte auf Papier, 29,7 x 42 cm, 2023\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" data-src-fg=\"https:\/\/www.thomasfromm.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2023\/10\/PA211517-Kopie-I-Kopie\/773067960.jpg\" class=\"fg-image\" \/><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">Philodendron, Acrylstifte auf Papier, 29,7 x 42 cm, 2023<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thomasfromm.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/PA211516-Kopie-I-Kopie.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"Sassafras, Acrylstifte auf Papier, 29,7 x 42 cm, 2023\" data-attachment-id=\"1069\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img title=\"Sassafras, Acrylstifte auf Papier, 29,7 x 42 cm, 2023\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" data-src-fg=\"https:\/\/www.thomasfromm.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2023\/10\/PA211516-Kopie-I-Kopie\/1034308377.jpg\" class=\"fg-image\" \/><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">Sassafras, Acrylstifte auf Papier, 29,7 x 42 cm, 2023<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\n<p>In my work, I am interested in the tension between art and science. I am particularly concerned with the question of the limits of the expressive power of art and science and whether, perhaps, the artistic and the scientific perspectives together can explain the manifestations of matter more fully and comprehensively. How much art form is inherent in natural form? \u2013 Attempting to answer this question is a central concern for me.<br \/>\nIn his 1859 work \"On the Origin of Species,\" Charles Darwin provided a compelling theory for the emergence and transformation of species. With the advent of Neo-Darwinism in the 20th century, the phenomenon of evolution became an established fact. Many phenomena in the living world could now be plausibly explained solely through mutation and selection. Many, but not all. Among the phenomena that cannot be explained merely by chance and necessity are, for example, the leaf shapes of terrestrial plants.<br \/>\nThere are about 280,000 species of terrestrial plants on our planet. These include mosses and ferns, as well as gymnosperms and angiosperms, such as conifers and flowering plants. All these species have one thing in common: they form leaves, each with a species-specific shape. These organs serve only one function: to collect light in order to perform photosynthesis in their cells. Why, then, the enormous diversity in the design of leaf shapes, when strictly speaking, a single leaf shape optimally adapted to this one function would suffice? Nature evidently acts here as a true artist, as this ideal, archetypal form of a leaf simply does not seem to exist. Here, design \u2013 and thus art \u2013 becomes an inherent drive of living matter toward expression, which seems detached from any utility and perhaps serves only the ideal of beauty. At the same time, an extraordinary morphogenetic plasticity of living matter must be a prerequisite for this, about the how and why of which we remain entirely in the dark.<br \/>\nAlthough there is certainly much anthropocentrism in this statement, it is not entirely far-fetched to assume that the great diversity of leaf shapes \u2013 and with it their immense beauty \u2013 perhaps serves a function as a form of pre-adaptation: to not only delight us humans but also to inspire awe in us, ultimately obligating us to protect and preserve this treasure.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>12 leafs In my work, I am interested in the tension between art and science. I am particularly concerned with the question of the limits of the expressive power of art and science and whether, perhaps, the artistic and the scientific perspectives together can explain&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1085","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomasfromm.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomasfromm.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomasfromm.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomasfromm.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomasfromm.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1085"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomasfromm.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1214,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomasfromm.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1085\/revisions\/1214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomasfromm.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}