Obscure distillations...

"Obscure distillations generate juices, salivas, yeasts. Like mists or dews, brief yet patient jellies come forth momentarily and with difficulty from a substance lately imperturbable: they are evanescent pharmacies, doomed victims of the elements, about to melt or dry up, leaving behind only a savour or a stain."
- Roger Caillois



Viktor Sykora strelitzia reginae bird of paradise seed


Jonathan Eisenback root-knot nematode perineal pattern


Frederick Keeney fern spore


Alvaro Migotto starfish embryo four cell stage


Matthias Reinhard rust on an iron round bar


Dr. Havi Sarfaty mouth of common fly


James Nicholson mushroom coral natural auto fluorescent proteins around mouth


Bruno Vellutini adolescent sand dollar


Sven Gould pellicle details of the ciliate paramecium caudatum


Thomas Shearer polished mexican fire agate

Jim Wetzel japanese medaka embryo live mount

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