Artists and scientists often find themselves looking closely at their subjects to discover that which might have appeared to be invisible previously, it involves slowing down and being aware of what is around us. I always find it a gift to be shown something by someone that I was completely unaware of before, or perhaps [...]
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Looking Closely
Posted in Art+Nature+Science Connection, Science in the Arts on November 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Science of Art Exhibit
Posted in Art+Nature+Science Connection, Science in the Arts on November 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Research labs are not typically considered places of beauty, but then, beauty is in the eye of the beholder–one person might describe a research project as having an elegant design, another might wax poetic about a bit of beautiful engineering, and anybody who has gotten to look at images of water bears produced by a [...]
Organic, Ethereal Art Work by Beili Liu
Posted in Science in the Arts on September 30, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Beili Liu takes unwoven wool, silk organza, thread and reworks them into structures that easily look like they could have been found in nature. The end results are sculptural and breath-taking. One of her pieces, Bound #2, is composed of two standing red-oak columns that look as if they might have been cut in half. [...]