When art-flowers and real plants blur into one vision

A Study in Duality

When art-flowers and real plants blur into one vision

November 2025

In their new series for Botané, photographer Marius Vogler and creative director Pia Erlitz explore the quiet space where the artificial and the organic meet. Shot entirely on film with a Leica M6 and Kodak Portra, the project blends art-flowers with real plants until the line between them becomes almost impossible to trace.

“We were drawn to Botané’s universe from the beginning,” they share. “Their flowers are not copies of nature, but interpretations — sculptural, alive, and poetic.”

A Cinematic Softness

True to their style, Marius and Pia approached the series with a cinematic sensibility. Working with natural daylight and flash, they created a rhythm of warmth and contrast that gives the photographs a timeless, dreamlike quality.

“Film slows time,” they say. “It lets moments unfold naturally, turning a photograph into a scene.”

A Dream Between Worlds

The locations — muted gardens, classical architecture, soft textures of stone and leaf — set the flowers inside a world that feels both familiar and imagined.

“We wanted the images to feel like a dream you almost remember,” they explain. “A place between clarity and blur, presence and absence.”

A Quiet Sense of Wonder

At its core, the series invites stillness. It asks the viewer to pause and consider the gentle ambiguity of what they’re seeing.

“If people feel suspended between what is real and what is crafted, then we’ve reached our goal,” they note. “We hope the images spark a quiet sense of wonder.”

In this meeting of light, nature, and craft, duality becomes harmony — and something delicate, timeless, and softly alive begins to emerge.