2011 - ongoing

I began this work with the simple hypothesis: that many people look to science for a very similar reason that we look to art, not for cold calculation and concise explanation, but for a story, something to amaze us, and a new mystery for our minds to unravel. While working with the Institute for Micromanufacturing at Louisiana Tech University during 2011, I realized that I could not hope to fully understand all of the research that happens there, but that I could witness an always tangible amount of enthusiasm that poured out from the laboratories. If you could get someone going on the right tangent, they would begin to say poetic, powerful, and passionate things that would always surprise me, and I realized that these emotions are what outsiders, like myself, could latch onto and then use to transition into a discussion of what is happening within these labs. The works in this exhibition speak to some of the stories that occur in the nano and micro-scale research occurring at the IfM. The stories range from cancer research to production of Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) and mix the actual words from the researchers with my own imagination to create images that reflect the sense of mystery, curiosity, and investigation that occur right under our noses, at a nanoscale.

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