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In her work Nikki van Es is pleased with the existence of many forms of life. She wants to understand something about the principles, coherence and the role of chance, while in the meantime she is aware that nature is still incomprehensible. Likewise, she tries to match inventiveness and beauty which is of course an impossible task. It is for this very reason that nature is both her companion and her rival. Sometimes she exposes plant structures and looks at microscopic details in an attempt to better understand the bigger picture through that microscopic detail, such as the photosynthesis of …