tools i've known on 10-16 as it looked moments ago, after flipping the central panel 180°
2:43 PM: flipping the middle panel has made a big difference. it introduced that element of the unpredictable I keep talking about in these posts, allowing the eye to make it’s own discoveries instead of having them all laid out and ready.
so if you compare the image BELOW, from my earlier post, with this one, I think you’ll see what i’m getting at. and if you have a look at the detail on the RIGHT, you’ll see that the way that hammer form interacts with marks drawn from a photo of the most detailed human cell image to date, creating a visual experience familiar yet mysterious. of course! you’re being reminded what YOU look like under an electron microscope!
to date the most detailed human cell image obtained with X-ray radiation, nuclear magnetic resonance & cry-electron microscopy.
DETAIL, showing how the transitions from the central panel to the one on the right give the eye more freedom to roam
tools i’ve known 1 as it looked moments ago
1:12 PM: continuing to develop this new triptych, I was in a patterning mood today. so I drew from a photo I found which reveals the most detail ever achieved of the structure of a human cell.
so far, this seems to start making the composition sing, and transition from an obvious reference to my studio tools to a celebration of the human cell.