Chrysopoeia
Artist book. & photography2013 — 2014
The book contains an extended essay and a series of photographs.
Shown at Investigating the Lab: Connections between Art, Design, and Science, RISD Design Science Symposium, 2014 and at Biomimicry, Brown University Science Center, 2015.
Shown at Investigating the Lab: Connections between Art, Design, and Science, RISD Design Science Symposium, 2014 and at Biomimicry, Brown University Science Center, 2015.
Duality—possessing and expressing two states; a Janus head, looking forward and back. Much like the concept of the homunculus, the tiny life form born of the primordial ooze, chrysopoeia refers to a generative process, one that is conceived by the merging and mutual metamorphosis of disparate ideas.