Project LIAison look at collaborating art with science. One of there pieces recently caught my eye because of its organic appearance. It had been created using drosophila (fly larvae) that had been dipped in paint and were used to make distinctive trace marks on paper as they moved around.
The natural pattern they created reminded me of my own studies as they give a similar appearance to the structure of blood vessels.
http://www.project-liaison.org/#!fly/c2i7 (website link)
In second year I took a constellation course with Robert Pepperell and since then both his art word and the content of that course have inspired my work.
A link to my previous blog posts on art and the conscious mind:
https://catherinexwx.wordpress.com/category/field-2nd-year/art-and-the-conscious-mind/
Robert Pepperell’s art work.
“[He] investigates the nature of perceptual awareness through philosophical inquiry, scientific experimentation, and painting and drawing.
Pepperell’s paintings and drawings are the result of intensive experimentation in materials and methods designed to evoke a very specific, though elusive, state of mind. The works induce a disrupted perceptual condition in which what we see cannot be matched with what we know. Instead of a recognisable depiction the viewer is presented with — what the art historian Dario Gamboni has called — a ‘potential image’, that is, a complex multiplicity of possible images, none of which ever finally resolves.
More recent work attempts to capture the experience of looking at objects in the world using a new form of ‘natural perspective’ based on the structure of human vision. The aim is not simply to record what is in the world, but what is it like to visually experience the world.”
Section from his website (link below).
This is a book that I read last year however its content still remains relevant as I am looking at how we think consciously and how we can link our thought patterns to the galaxies… ever changing and unknown to other humans.
The most inspirational quote from the book:
“The amazing thing is that every atom in your body came from a star that exploded. And, the atoms in your left hand probably came from a different star than your right hand. It really is the most poetic thing I know about physics: You are all stardust. You couldn’t be here if stars hadn’t exploded, because the elements – the carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, iron, all the things that matter for evolution – weren’t created at the beginning of time. They were created in the nuclear furnaces of stars, and the only way they could get into your body is if those stars were kind enough to explode. So, forget Jesus. The stars died so that you could be here today.”
I have always been fascinated with the human body, the idea that we are made up of so many different elements and organs that we know so much and yet so little about. They are what allow us as humans to move, communicate and consciously think and yet we cannot see them.
I think this curiosity peaked when a couple of years ago I went to the ‘Bodies’ exhibition, ever since then I have wanted to explore the delicacy of our bodies (like the blood vessels and nuclear cells) as well our own physical presence.
This is by far one of the best exhibitions I have ever been too, and I think the reasons why really speak for themselves! Not only is it the first of its kind but it is also scientifically and visually amazing.. everything is done with so much skill and dedication that it’s difficult not to be amazed by it (or at least that’s what I think).
Here’s a few link encase you’re as interested in it as I am…
http://www.premierexhibitions.com/exhibitions/4/4/bodies-exhibition
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodies:_The_Exhibition
This also got me looking at William Cowpers work in my second year of University
This is a link to that blog post
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