PIM LEENEN 
City Seeds
Personal project in progress in collaboration with Thijs de Zeeuw and Anna Fink.
City Seeds, for anyone willing to bend down to pick it up, the city is full of jewelry.
In Amsterdam in the year 2020, just a little more different plant species were found than on Texel, one of our most beautiful national parks. That may be because more botany enthusiasts live in Amsterdam, but it could also just be that the Dutch capital is phytologically more diverse in nature than our largest Wadden Island. 
The city is a landscape with a huge variety of weird nooks and crannies. There is an ideal niche in the city for every plant species. You could call these kinds of plants urbanophiles, lovers of the city. Plants that take advantage of the opportunities the city offers them. 
Amsterdam is a nature reserve; an urban landscape with a very diverse flora, some 1,000 different species.

Physalis Alkekengi, Lampionplant.

The photographic research zooms in on the seeds, adding an invisible aesthetic to their existing beauty.

Salvia sp, Salie.

The aim of the project is to explore the reciprocity of human-nature relationships.

Daucus carota, Wilde Peen.

The project starts with landscape architect Thijs de Zeeuw, he collected seeds of about a hundred different urban plant species in Amsterdam.
This seed collection, stored away dry and dark requires germination. For these seeds are still part of that living plant.
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