My second year participating in the Art of a Scientist exhibition, I was paired with research of an evolutionary anthropologist. This work is in conversation with an investigation of ancient homonin fossils from the Rising Star Cave system in South Africa. The images are points of scientific interest on different scales that relate to the body of research, some organized by chance and some by design. The pieces are displayed to suggest a sequence that has no clear beginning or end, echoing the ways in which new information continually shifts the framework of how we understand evolutionary biology and, consequently, how homo sapiens are a part of such framework.
Untitled, each piece 20” x 20”, chalk and acrylic on masonite
In 2018 I participated in a show pairing Duke University scientists and their research with local artists. Titled Seeing, my piece is a response to research investigating the visual processing capacity of sea urchins, which sense light through protein receptors along a decentralized nerve structure. My work is a visual hypothesis to the question of how it would feel to experience the world as a sea urchin.
Seeing, 4’ x 4’, acrylic on masonite