Paul Morrison

To design this mural, artist Paul Morrison digitally manipulated found illustrations of plant life, shifting their scale and reducing them to flat black-and-white forms to create a completely new composition. He appropriates his imagery from a variety of sources, from Old Master woodcuts and botanical drawings to wallpaper patterns and printed cartoons. The work’s title—the term for the outer layer of a pollen grain—underscores the artist’s pervasive interest in nature and in botanical themes.