JESS NASH



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microscopy galleries:

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In the course of my biochemistry, cell biology, and neuroscience research, I’ve collected gigabytes upon gigabytes of microscopy images, each of which captures one plane and one instant of an organic system, usually in some state of artificial freezing and/or lighting-up. In general, almost all such microscopy images have been created to serve very narrow scientific ends. This is changing.

These galleries display selected microscopy images, altered, cropped, and processed for more expansive scientific—and artistic—purposes: to make compelling compositions; to investigate vertical planes; to emphasize static and noise; to find unexpected organic structures; to point out neighbours; to feel out interesting textures; to raise questions about the emptiness or solidity of negative space; often, to do the things a good publication-seeking scientist wouldn’t. Someone has to!