Alchemy

Using reference photos captured by technology (microscope), I explore imagery that is inaccessible to our unaided eye. Visually deconstructing and physically reconstructing magnified details into stylized marks is immensely satisfying. The work becomes the prolonged examination of edge, shape, light, and color. The polarized thin sections of rocks and minerals are rendered realistically, yet the compositions lack context and the enlarged scale yields abstraction.