The Flora Danica III series consists of 31 photographs in the format (87.5 x 70) cm, each rooted in various selections from the 3,240 hand-colored copper engravings of the original Flora Danica. Fragments of these engravings are visually combined with image elements from the past 30–40 years of Danish history, forming a new kind of enlightenment project. This time, however, not to “gain greater knowledge of the useful and harmful properties of various plants,” but rather to depict the contours of Danish reality as interpreted through historical events and the way they have been visually mediated.
