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Nature can seem messy, chaotic, even frightening, but in Christopher Marley's world, it's a bounty of useable materials that can be infinitely organized and aestheticized. --Slate While (Christopher Marley's) work is motivated by aesthetics, many of the artist's mosaics tell scientific stories, particularly those that include organisms that are genetically related but live in different parts of the world. . . . He painstakingly arranges according to color to highlight their striking visual relationships. --Smithsonian.com Even the hard categorizations and taxonomies of a natural history museum don't hide the beauty of the world. . . . But rarely do you get to see those specimens side by side. . . . Marley chooses his juxtapositions carefully to emphasize the full spectrum of color displayed--and replicated--in the natural world. His chosen flora and fauna bring out each others' best hues. --Wired.com As an artist, [Christopher] Marley offers a perspective on nature that's more corporeal than conceptual. It manifests itself in clean lines and axes--orbiting specimens that have passed from life to deities of art. --Audubon.org Christopher Marley's Biophilia is much more than a sumptuous coffee-table pleasure. It is also an elegant manifesto meant to nudge us off our couches and easy chairs and out the door. --The New York Times Science Times

Even the hard categorizations and taxonomies of a natural history museum don't hide the beauty of the world. . . . But rarely do you get to see those specimens side by side. . . . Marley chooses his juxtapositions carefully to emphasize the full spectrum of color displayed--and replicated--in the natural world. His chosen flora and fauna bring out each others' best hues. --Wired.com As an artist, [Christopher] Marley offers a perspective on nature that's more corporeal than conceptual. It manifests itself in clean lines and axes--orbiting specimens that have passed from life to deities of art. --Audubon.org Nature can seem messy, chaotic, even frightening, but in Christopher Marley's world, it's a bounty of useable materials that can be infinitely organized and aestheticized. --Slate While (Christopher Marley's) work is motivated by aesthetics, many of the artist's mosaics tell scientific stories, particularly those that include organisms that are genetically related but live in different parts of the world. . . . He painstakingly arranges according to color to highlight their striking visual relationships. --Smithsonian.com Christopher Marley's Biophilia is much more than a sumptuous coffee-table pleasure. It is also an elegant manifesto meant to nudge us off our couches and easy chairs and out the door. --The New York Times Science Times

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Christopher Marley is an artist and designer who uses natural artifacts as his medium of expression. To create this work, he collects specimens in an environmentally responsible manner from a worldwide network of people who share his passion for nature. His popular first book, Pheromone (2008), focused on his artwork with insects. He lives and works in Oregon.

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