This body of work demonstrates how the principle of luminosity transcends both science and art. In terms of science light creates growth through the process of photosynthesis, it is one of the essential ingredients of life, sustaining all living things. Light too, however, is central to art-making, casting figures in relief, building emotion, contours, making the 2D into 3D. This is another kind of synthesis, the synthesis of light and man-made aesthetics, the light that brings drawing life.
I chose to portray this by looking at the parallels between science and art through directly demonstrating how tools of science can use light to open up new artistic landscapes, transforming biology into abstract aesthetic landscapes. The microscope, here, became an artistic tool, allowing the observer to peer into an alien creative world. The drawing represents this landscape, and served both as my representation of the ‘inside’ of a leaf, and an abstract work in itself. The scientist sees the mystery of art through the use of light in a microscope. The artist sees new forms through the science of biological minutiae.

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