Fine Art
Project Name
Human Dreams
Gallery: Downtown Artery
Honey, 2015, digital photography, microscope, honey
Sugar, 2015, digital photography, microscope, cane sugar
Crystal, 2015, digital photography, microscope, fungal hyphae, isopropyl alcohol
Salt, 2015, digital photography, microscope, Selenium salt
Hyphae, 2015, digital photography, microscope, fungal hyphae, water
This piece was very very short-lived. As soon as people started looking at it (sweating near, breathing on, or even licking it), it started to sag and melt. It began absurdly light, fluffy, delightful; over-the-top optimistic to mirror the absurdity and hubris of human effort against the forces of entropy and chaos. Under the cotton candy is a modular origami star, which allowed for the underlying structure to slowly become visible, in the way that as things senesce, a complex internal order is often revealed.
It is paired with microscope photography because these scenes are also extremely ephemeral yet expansive. Sometimes I exhale and my subject will completely disappear. The microscopic world lends a sense of perspective to the cotton candy- it highlights the ability for us to create whole worlds with our deeds despite how tiny they may be against the backdrop of reality.