the beauty of science

"I realized that I had the microscopic equivalent of a cubist painting, art and science never seemed closer."

These are scans from a book I picked up at the car boot entitled SUPER VISION: A NEW VIEW OF NATURE by Ivan Amato. I spied its neon cover poking out of a box, quickly flicked through and figured it would make amazing collage material. Reading it later on however, I discovered it's the epitome of my current love of the fusion of both art and science. The imagery in the book ranges from the subatomic scans of crystals (#1), metals, minerals and materials, the visualization of molecular reactions, microscopic images of plants and cells to close up views of adhesive tape (#4) and bamboo (#3); beautifully psychedelic, otherworldly and kaleidoscopic.

"When the image is so abstract that it refers to no particular scale of size, it enters the domain of modern science almost directly, for science itself images abstractions as forms of analysis. Thus many pictures of some scientific value resemble the work of abstract artists during many epochs of art." 

Nature's glorious penchant for order: "everyday ornament, say a fine pot or fabric, may be repeated in multiple, male a style of a single impetus. Science too deals in multiples: Stars and blossoms, the unending system of integers, the barrage of particle and photon, the sound trains of air vibration."

I never thought that the words DIGITAL, PRINT, and SCIENCE would ever be in my vocabulary collectively (I'm a vinyl > downloads, monochrome > colour, art > science classes gal) Couple these words with ART however and I get extremely excited. Just IMAGINE any of these as prints on material / fabric / dresses / jumpers ~ INSANE.

"Nature exhibits both symmetry and chaos, and from time to time either or both of these characteristics can lead to images on every dimensional scale whose value transcends the scientific interpretation of physical phenomena and extends into the realms of art and aesthetics." YES

& our wild paths intersect

Frank Bruggeman | Faye Toogood | Scholten & Baijings | Maarten Baas

Photographed by Marius W Hansen

COS Magazine No. 10 - The Outside Issue

I was flicking through the latest COS Magazine, and was captivated by the feature that saw five noted designers and artists create a bouquet. Each interpreted in different ways, exploring various ideas; permanence, space, composition, representation, temporality, the urban outdoors...

My favourite is the floral arrangement by Frank Bruggeman - the form and composition, the contrast of textures, the simplicity, the way in which the one stem lies horizontally...

"His imposing installations shown in museums and public spaces often consist of trees, flowers and other organic materials. For this exuberant bouquet, Bruggeman combined dry, wintery materials such as chestnut branches with newly flowering amaryllis and tulips. “It gives one a sense of the season,” says the artist. “Bouquets are living rather than static things, and thus temporary.” Instead of choosing a traditional vase, Bruggeman has made use of a kenzan or ‘spiky frog’, a flower holder from the ikebana practice. A true flora fanatic, Bruggeman is a founding editor of Club Donny, a journal on the personal experience of nature in the urban environment."

Having a mother as a florist, I find myself becoming more and more interested in the construction and the concept of a floral arrangement, as so much of the deliberation over flower, colour and composition choices bear such a similarity to the creative processes when creating any other type of art. These pieces, in their expression of a concept with their sculptural appearance, prove that the artistry of arranging is far from a past time only the village elderly upkeep but a very contemporary creative practice that I believe is only beginning to permeate the art world.

--- title from a song by patten -- go listen -- & watching Drive for like the hundreth time -- the soundtrack is divine -- #midnightmusings

psychology o'colourz

Johan Willner | Andrea Belag
Unknown | Kaari Upson
Mark Rothko, No. 3, 1967 | Hindu tantra devotees
Cy Twombly, Untitled, 1982 | Unknown


I go through phases where I become completely infatuated with certain colours / combinations. Don't know why or how but it happens & lately it's pink & red. Clashing and with the age old stigma that they should never be seen or or worn together, there is actually something vivid and luscious in their combination. Need to find a colour block or painterly silk dress with these colours on...