Natural growth shapes art series Crystal Garden: Seasons   The collective Beauty of Science unveils the art series Crystal Garden: Seasons, where rows of glass Petri dishes show how colorful crystals naturally grow within them. Unfolding as a collaboration between the artist and a natural material, it is the former that establishes the conditions, such as the temperature, saturation, container, and pigment, and then steps back to let the crystallization take place. Soon, these minerals expand and take the form of the Petri dishes, creating scenic landscapes brought about by their own courses.   The first forms appear almost tentatively: pale filaments spreading across the shallow floor of the glass containers. Then, over hours and days, they thicken. Branches multiply. Clusters gather and bloom. What begins as a controlled chemical solution becomes a terrain dense with spires, lattices, and mineral thickets.…