Bacterial Art
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All artwork featured has been created first by collecting microbial samples that harbor various colors and textures. Cultures have arisen from areas such as bathroom stalls, skin, and outdoors. Said cultures are then inoculated onto media to grow.
With using a live medium, unpredictability is unavoidable. This leads to distinctive and remarkably unique results, further allowing the artist understanding of the medium's behavior and expression.
Pars pro toto | A part for the whole
Painting with the human skin microbiome
On display at Kean University, New Jersey, March 18-25, 2022
A self portrait exhibition of the artist's skin bacterial colonization and a celebration of the unique microscopic life populating each individual. The artist routinely swabs her skin to collect existing microbes and paints with the derived cultures. Inoculating onto agar plates and Gram staining on microscope slides, the artist uses her experience as a painter to construct abstract compositions that, by using both a compound light microscope and a dissecting microscope, showcase the beauty of bacterial colonies and cell morphology.
