Floric Antenna

Floric Antenna' 1 & 2 are energy scavenging loop antenna derived from a study of the growth pattern seen in orange lichen found in the Wollemi region of the greater Blue Mountains World Heritage. This small orange lichen is surprisingly robust, growing on rocks with few nutrients or water but successfully converting the electromagnetic energy of the sun into an optimised resonant receiving structure. In a world where mobile telephones contain fractal antennae, and fractal mathematics appear wherever we are approximating and describing the real, it stands to reason that the fractal patterns revealed through plant structures are potentially dynamic or have a hidden functionality.