This automata combines two of Johann Wolfgang Goethe's (1789-1832) scientific explorations – his work in color theory and botany. Both of these works, Zur Farbenlehre (color theory) and the concept of the Urpflanze or supersensuous archtypes (botany), were marginalized or partially rejected at the moment of initial dissemination but may prove applicable now in their alternative approach to embodied knowledge production and research. Goethe's methods were often aligned with methods of artistic inquiry as he sought to study phenomena where and how it would be experienced, as opposed to a controlled environment like a laboratory. One of his lesser known texts titled Attempt to Explain the Metamorphosis of Plants (1790) is an interesting case study where Goethe illustrates how all parts of the plant are formed through expansions or contraction of the tissue as all parts of the plant consist of identical cellular material. Both the fields of botany and color theory have had an engaging relationship to the visual arts since artists began representing forms from their immediate environments. This work explores some of these concepts through the development of a organic automata that uses water (power source or flow), color (data input), light (data input), time-lapse (data output), automated “watercolor paintings” and the process of transpiration in the carnations (memory) – the carnation petals change in hue over time due to the insertion of the dye. I have made two prototypes am currently producing a third which is more of a room sized installation, kinda like an early supercomputer.