Over the last 5 weeks I’ve been participating in an online workshop hosted by The School of Machines, Making & Make-Believe.
In week 4 of the course, we’ve started to consider how the instruments of seeing have replaced the human eye, within the realms of art science. In the last century, our understanding of anatomy has been enhanced by photography, Xrays, microscopy and computation - bringing new patterns and perceptions to the way we see ourselves.
Using the lentil as an analogue for the body - I’ve been playing with 3D digital models of Xray Crystallography - as ways to visualise the abstracted body through contemporary modelling of RNA and DNA structures. I’ve also been trying to understand and think about this in relation to Covid19. Here are some short works in progress.
