Jess Nash
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Over time spent conducting biochemistry, cell biology, and neuroscience research, I’ve collected gigabytes upon gigabytes of microscopy images. Each individual image captures one plane and one instant of an organic system, usually in some state of artificial freezing and/or lighting-up. Generally, such microscopy images are created to serve narrow scientific ends, but there’s more to see.
These galleries display selected microscopy images, altered, cropped, and processed for broader 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 what a good publication-seeking scientist wouldn’t.