Spanish artist Almudena Romero knew from a young age that she loved plants： “I must have been about four or five—my granny would call and say， ‘What do you want for your birthday？’ And I’d be like， an olive tree.”

西班牙艺术家阿尔穆德娜·罗梅罗从小就知道自己喜爱植物：“大概在我四五岁时，奶奶打电话问我：‘你生日想要什么礼物？’我就会说，想要一棵橄榄树。”

With her inclusion in exhibitions in London and Paris， she’s showcasing her unique plant-based art that’s pushing audiences to question their hyper-consumerism whilst showing that it’s possible to create art in an eco-friendly manner.

罗梅罗受邀参加伦敦和巴黎的展览，通过展示自己独特的植物艺术作品，引导观众反思过度消费主义，同时向人们证明可以用环保的方式进行艺术创作。

In her four-chapter series called “The Pigment Change，” rather than developing photos on photographic paper， she prints them directly onto plants.

在名为《色素变化》的四章节系列作品中，罗梅罗没有在相纸上冲洗照片，而是直接将照片印制在植物上。

“I just put a negative on top of the leaf and leave it to the sunlight， and then the image gets recorded on the leaf，” Romero said. “But I also print on living plants using a digital projector， and the plant makes photosynthesis with the light from the projector and records an image.”

“我就是把底片放在叶子上，让阳光照射，然后图像就记录在叶子上了。”罗梅罗解释道，“我也会用数码投影仪在活体植物上投影，植物借助投影仪的光线进行光合作用，进而将图像记录下来。”

In a chapter from that series， called “Family Album，” she spreads watercress seeds on a stretched canvas， and lets them grow in the dark， before projecting a negative onto the watercress.

在该系列的“家庭相册”一章中，罗梅罗将豆瓣菜种子撒在展开的画布上，先让种子在黑暗中生长，然后将底片投射到豆瓣菜上。

“The parts that receive more light produce chlorophyll， hence the dark green tones， and the parts that receive less light remain yellow， pale，” she said. “[It’s] exactly like in a photographic darkroom. But instead of having an enlarger， I have a projector， and my watercress canvas is my photo paper. That’s how I grow photographs.”

“菜叶上得到更多光照的部分会产生叶绿素，因此呈现出深绿色，而光照较少的部分仍然是黄色，颜色很浅。”她说，“这就像在摄影暗房里一样，只不过我没有用放大机，而是用投影仪，豆瓣菜画布就是我的相纸。我就是这样‘种出’照片的。”

The chlorophyll process adopted by Almudena was popularized in the 90’s by Heather Ackroyd and Dan Harvey， who projected photographs onto grass using a negative and light cast by a projector bulb. Allegedly， the British artists came up with the technique when they noticed random outlines of a ladder cast onto one of their grass installations.

罗梅罗采用的叶绿素成像法在20世纪90年代由艺术家希瑟·阿克罗伊德与丹·哈维推广，他们使用底片和投影仪灯泡发出的光线将照片投影到草地上。据称，这两位英国艺术家是注意到他们的一个草坪装置上随机呈现出一个梯子的轮廓，从而想出了叶绿素成像法。