Art for Interiors: Caren Alpert Photography

When I came across Caren Alpert's Terra Cibus photographic project, it stirred something inside of me.  It was this picture that did it:

(c) Caren Alpert Fine Art Photography

Do you know what this is? My friends, you'll be surprised to know that this is a close up of table salt.  Plain, old salt.  But how amazing is it? Alpert uses a scanning electron microscopes (SEM) to capture these shots. It's extreme micro photography - actually it’s called micrography.

All I could think was how good a blown up version would look in an interior space.  Plus, I'm kind of a lab geek, so I love the idea that a super duper microscope was involved in this process and that we are getting this secret look into something we are quite familiar with - but never explore in this way.  In the same way, isn't it amazing how some of these images remind us of landscapes that do feel familiar to us - a crop field, ice bergs, metal, tectonic plates, feathers...? What else do you see?

(c) Caren Alpert Fine Art Photography

(c) Caren Alpert Fine Art Photography

(c) Caren Alpert Fine Art Photography

(c) Caren Alpert Fine Art Photography

(c) Caren Alpert Fine Art Photography

Images are for sale via the artist.

See more of Alpert's project at Terra Cibus. I promise it will be very exciting to discover what these images are actually of!

Here is an image of her work in a modern residential context - hung in a hallway on glorious concrete walls with great accent lighting. A real gallery feel.

(c) Caren Alpert FIne Art Photography

See more of Alpert's other photographic work on her website. Some nice interior photography there too!