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NatureMatchCuts Podcast
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Exploring marvels of #biodiversity and fascinating #culturalHeritage. Inspiring stories from the intersections of #science and #natureWriting, cultural knowledge and art https://naturematchcuts.net Find me on #Mastodon: https://mastodon.online/@NatureMC
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I'm back in #zines (after a 40-year hiatus)!
It's my personal #activism against #AI #scraping of #artists: #AI and #llm can't fold paper / have fun with silly stuff like a moss caressing alien.
And I'm fascinated by the modern forms and the possibilities of #storytelling.
#sciComm #writer #solarpunk
two pages of paper showing a tiny section of preparations for a zine. One is the prototype with drawings in colour showing a frog-like green alien, smiling, the word 'reconnection'. On top of that is a sheet of paper with pencil sketches, featuring many of these aliens. This will be coloured in later and then scanned.
November 15, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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When once I started to #embroider #moss in 3D, I was surprised how much material and work it "eats". #embroidery #textileArts #SciArt #nature #biodiversity #Moos
I start with thick felt for building some 3D structures. The moss is stitched in French knot technique. The more I use colour shades and irregularity, the more it looks naturally. Finished moss in different green shades with some sporophytes. They are made with green and brown glass beads on extremely thin green wire.
August 5, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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If you see this, quote with your green #art.
Part of my #BiodiversityShrines #sciArt project about #biodiversityLoss www.cronenburg.net/biodiversity/
Sanctuary of a Colias Palaeno butterfly, ornated with braids and a floral perlage element. The edges are covered with pink silk.
June 28, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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#Roses love the sun, they originate from Mesopotamia. This is the new #climateCrisis dessert 'rose brûlée'. 🙄 Photos from Wednesday, 3:50 pm: 32°C in northern #Alsace. (Next week up to 40°C).
#heatwave #gardening #rosegarden
An umbel of small pink roses, freshly blossomed and already wilting from the heat. Two flowers of the Pierre de Ronsard rose looking like brown parchment mummies. Normally they are creamy white and pink. Another mummy of the Pierre de Ronsard Rose. It is light brown, after opening yesterday. Normally the inside is pink, the ourside creamy white. Burnt flowers of a pink bush rose. The burning happened in only two hours in the morning.
June 27, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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F*ck #Amazon / #Bezos!
Greenpeace poster: Billionaires like Bezos hoard money and power, erode democracies while attacking our rights and freedom ....
June 26, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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😂 These guys will never learn it.
Old b/w film: a woman hits a man(splainer) on the head and smiles into the camera.
June 18, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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Post a #bug that looks AI but is actually real.

#Graphosoma italicum, the striped #bug / #Streifenwanze / #punaise arlequin

#noAI #realNature
Two beautifully red and black striped bugs mating. They are connected at the tip of their posterior, the bugs looking in opposite directions.
June 17, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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They are blooming again, my #flower #friends: "I began to sit with Mother-of-The-Evening every day, #breathing (again) deeply, learning to live in a very different world. Her #beauty helped me to endure dystopia." ▶️ www.cronenburg.net/sweet-lady-v...
#HesperisMatronalis #bloomscrolling #flowers
A lilac coloured cruciferous plant with lots of small flowers.
June 7, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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Did you ever talk about #moss se.x? I did: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...

#NatureMatchCuts #podcast #nature #diversity #biodiversity #reconnectWithNature #mossy #tardigrade #gardening #ecology #sciComm
A well watered, glibbery green moss with brown, ripe sporophytes just before opening.
June 4, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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If you see this, post a monster!
I like #bookworms but some people say they munch too many #books, these monsters! Here's the #book #beetle.
#paperArt #sciArt #library #bookworm
Paper art beetle with rose coloured wings and a book paper head and thorax, glassy eggs and white larvae containing letters. Helluo librorum from a French library.
May 28, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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Great photo! In eastern France, one of them, Cucujus cinnaberinus, was nearly extinct and then slowly came back with poplar plantations. I was so happy that I made one with paper. I use different detailed photos to recreate the beetles.
A realistic Cucujus cinnaberinus made in paper, legs and feelers are made with finest wire and black thread. Inside a shrine with floral saree silk, part of my project of Biodiversity Shrines.
May 25, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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It's not made by Gemini, only using it. And the developer is whining.
symmetricalboy whining about the blocks of their bot.
May 15, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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After the rain ...
#bloomscrolling
#bouquet
#wildFlowers
#TimelineCleanser
#flowers
A small glass vase with a bouquet mixed with wild and garden flowers, in white, pink and purple. The same bouquet from above on a blue table.
May 6, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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I'm volunteering in a French cultural heritage centre where we let teach older generations how ancient cottage and farm gardens looked like: It was all for #biodiversity and interconnections between flowers and vegetables. The ones with the gravel horror gardens in France are quite young. 😉
Traditional Alsatian cottage garden with a mixture of herbs for kitchen and medicine, a mix of wild and garden herbs. Part of a traditional cottage garden in Alsace, France. Vegetables, flowers and herbs grow together. People still knew about the good influence of one species on another or plants chasing insects from vegetables. Also mulch (here: straw) was used already in the 19th century.
April 29, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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'Imagine a human being downsized to our mighty body size, having to find prey in a watery environment, while connecting all your ganglions with your brain and your body has only about 1.000 cells! Wouldn't you be wobbly, too?' Mrs Tardy in my coming #NatureMatchCuts episode. I love her. #tardigrades
Tardigrade meme: Tardigrade lying on their back and playing violin.
April 28, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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#bloomscrolling #silentSunday #buttercups #bouquet
Buttercups in an old yellow coffee mug.
April 27, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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My #scrollBook is in the hot end phase: the #embroidery is done, now I have to mount it on the wooden spool.
#textileArt
#fiberArts
#fibreArts
#collageArt
#wildStitching
#intuitiveStitching
#artBook
#artist
#AtelierTetebrec
The whole fabric stripe finished. The white coton flanell was coloured with red fruit tea. I used mainly purple and bright acid green colourshades for the collage, lavender glass rocailles with a special lustering, and multicoloured/variegated threads. Detail showing pieces of lace (white and dark purple) and a piece of saree silk. The embroidery stitches in yellow, grey and rose are wild and intuitive. The collage is not only for seeing, it has a texture to touch. Stitches made like letters of an unknown language, lace, silk and tea bag paper - plus emboidered glass beads. Detail with saree silk scraps, pseudo-letters (embroidered) and glass rocaille application. One silk scrap has beautifully printed ornaments, another an interesting weaving pattern. It's like a collection of my most beautiful textile scraps telling a story.
April 25, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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Forget-me-nots are blooming. #bloomscrolling #ForgetMeNot #perlage #glassBeads #flowers #BiodiversityShrines #garden #art
Forget-me-nots made with tiny glass rocailles on green wire in front of an old dictionnary page. The glass beads for a flower: 5 blue lustered ones and one small yellow one in the middle. Even smaller flowers with a transparent blue. I need tweezers to make them. A ruler beside shows that one flower is smaller than 5 mm.
April 23, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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Throughout my childhood, I hated #StGeorge for having killed that cute #dragon. It was one of my first contacts with #biodiversityLoss and patriarchal #anthropocentrism. With this #embroidery, I took revenge. Long live the #dragons! Our world needs more cute #green beings. 🐉💚 #textileArt #fiberArts
A cute green dragon with reddish-brown wings like a bat, fire-breathing. It's embroidered with needle-painting technique and framed in an oval antique bronze frame. The work in progress: stitching the fire. Behind lays my drawing of a cute cartoon-like dragon.
April 23, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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On #EarthDay, one of my #BiodiversityShrine objects, a Cucujus cinnaberinus #beetle. Read more about the #sciArt project and why I celebrate this beetle: www.cronenburg.net/biodiversity/ (more photos).
#reconnectWithNature #biodiversity #biodiversityLoss #art #paperArt #mixedmedia #rareSpecies
A small shrine in the shape of a Gothic church window with a realistic paper art beetle surrounded by floral embroidered green fabric. Macro of the beetle which is long, quite flat and reddish brown with black legs. Pink, red and blue embroidered flowers. The beetle is build from handpainted paper, the legs are made with finest wire and black thread. Macro of one of the pink flowers: They are machine-embroidered. The fabric was waste: it comes from saree production in India, the cuts from the machines. All my shrines look precious but are made with waste.
April 22, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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Even under a grey sky ... the joy of #spring. #miniBouquet #bloomscrolling #flowers #daisies #muscari
A mini bouquet of daisies, muscari, a small tulip, ans tiny yellow flowers.
April 19, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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Meanwhile, in the country of #fashion, France - for colour is #diversity and #liveliness. 😊
#visibleMending #fastFashionSucks #vibrancy #joy #repair #colourful
A very coulourful jeans with visible mending. Silk patches and wild embroidery in many colours to cover the holes.
April 18, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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#Dandelion #beauty with #noMow and #lazyGardening. Comes after snowdrops, then violets. #gardening #pollinators #lawn #perfectLawn #eatable #cooking with #dandelions #bloomscrolling
My lawn full of blooming dandelions. A dandelion plant with lots of flowers. You can eat everthing: leaves as salad or vegetable, buds as caper substitute, flowers in honey or alcohol ... A dandelion flower with a beautiful small spider. A dandelion flower with a small green grasshopper.
April 14, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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Break. Halfway through the text. There's nothing more boring than having to #translate your own text, one that's riddled with technical terms from oil mining and ecology. I feel like I'm running a marathon. Who makes me a #coffee?
#translation #essay
Yellow cartoon snail tries to run.
April 14, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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I always loved Peter Ustinov's definition of #optimism. We can't fight for the good without hope.
I am an optimist, unrepentant, and militant. After all, in order not to be a fool an optimist must know how sad a place the world can be. It is only the pessimist who finds this out anew every day. Quote by Peter Ustinov.
April 13, 2025 at 5:44 PM