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Stardust: Bone & Botticelli
In my work with the microscope I ponder the realms within realms we inhabit along a continuum of interconnections and wonder between tiny and vast, micro and macro.  I've looked at bees, tears, the ocean, and other life matter.

My micrographs of bone have been a touchstone of evolving perceptions for me over the years. One day I ‘inverted’ these images, reversing light to dark, dark to light, and saw this same view of bone and blood cells in a new way, illuminated, mysteriously sublime, as though revealing their essential nature, and this has stayed with me.

Today, among extraordinary insights about the cosmos from the Webb Space Telescope, is the reminder that we too are made of the same “star stuff”, Carl Sagan’s assertion that the calcium in our bones and iron in our blood were forged in the explosion of a dying star billions of years ago.

I had never considered the connection between the cosmos and my own body in this way.

As I ponder the stardust in my bones and the cosmos within everything, Stardust: Bone & Botticelli explores variations on a theme of dust, in a series of micrographs which include my bone, detritus from the backside of a Botticelli painting on wood, and contemplations on the ubiquitous dust of our own realm in the ways we experience it - its fusions and manifestations, existential and metaphoric: material decay and holding the essence of the cosmos.

In this work I look at the way perception and meaning are intertwined, as I invert my micrographs, exploring the interchangeability of form and space, darkness and light, negative and positive. Zoomed in thousands of times, a blood cell evokes a celestial body; crumbs of wax, dirt, and grime evoke a landscape. Everything of the cosmos is connected, from a speck of dust to a planet, a neuron to a galaxy.

"Beings and aeons are as many as dust particles, and all are present in every particle of dust."
-Indra’s Net-


© Rose-Lynn Fisher 2024
all rights reserved


contact:
roselynnfisher8@gmail.com

Currently on exhibit at Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica, until October12, 2024, a Participating Gallery in Getty's PST ART: Art and Science Collide

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

STARDUST: BONE & BOTTICELLI

© Rose-Lynn Fisher 2024 all rights reserved

 



Botticelli dust 600x  © 2024 Rose-Lynn Fisher


Botticelli dust 30,000x  © 2024 Rose-Lynn Fisher


A particle of Pi 750x  © 2024 Rose-Lynn Fisher


Could be the moon 1000x  © 2024 Rose-Lynn Fisher


Dustscape in glow 5000x  © 2024 Rose-Lynn Fisher


Bonescape 2200x  © 2024 Rose-Lynn Fisher


There's stardust in my bones 1000x  © 2024 Rose-Lynn Fisher


There's stardust in my blood 2500x  © 2024 Rose-Lynn Fisher


Blood cells 10,000x  © 2024 Rose-Lynn Fisher


Pollen 1800x © 2024 Rose-Lynn Fisher


Moon landing  © 2024 Rose-Lynn Fisher


Space within, space without  © 2024 Rose-Lynn Fisher


What remains of a thought erased?  © 2024 Rose-Lynn Fisher


The certainty of dust © 2024 Rose-Lynn Fisher