The Spy caught up with scientist and artist Selin Balci at Sandbox Studio last week to hear her describe her microbial growth art project. Balci, a visiting lecturer in studio art at Washington College, sees her work as referencing “the fundamental, underlying social dilemmas and principles of our existence in an effort to understand and highlight social issues.”
Interestingly, the striking images in the exhibit are not photographs. They are actual microbial growths painted onto paper, allowed to propagate, then terminated when Balci feels that the image has achieved optimum interest.
Balci’s exhibit will be up until October 24.
If you have not attended one of Sandbox’s events, you are missing a pioneering showcase for artists who embrace the natural environment, science and art in novel ways to approach problem solving. Distinguished artists visit each year to participate in the Studio’s projects and offer an opportunity for all of us to experience this new visionary quest to see our natural world differently, perhaps even to shock us into bridging our sense of separateness from it.
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