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Awake in Reciprocal Space Drawing

Regina Valluzzi

United States

Drawing, Ink on Paper

Size: 10 W x 8 H x 0.1 D in

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As a Materials Scientist by training I've spent a good bit of time in reciprocal space. When I was doing a lot of diffraction and scattering combined with Fourier transform spectroscopies I would sometimes go to sleep with my head still in Reciprocal Space and wake disoriented from my night long adventures in dataland. This piece is partly a reference to those experiences. By far the funniest and weirdest personal romp through reciprocal space was in a favorite comic from MIT days "The Legend of Fred" by Jim Brendt. One of the main characters became trapped in reciprocal space right about the time I started taking higher level classes using the same concept. The zaniness of the comic reflected the way many of us felt about classes like 3.13. Ask me about my recurring electron microscopy in my kitchen dream.

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Drawing:Ink on Paper

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Size:10 W x 8 H x 0.1 D in

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I am offering a selection of Abstracts and abstracted Science theme work on Saatchi. Please search for me online for my Landscape and Tree of Life bodies of work. I often ask myself whether I'm a physical scientist who also paints, or a painter who has studied a bit too much physics and chemistry. Physics and Chemistry have become a big part of how I model and understand the world. I approach paint texture in terms of it's viscoelastic properties, and color in terms of pigments and their spectra. If you take a cadmium inorganic red and it's organic substitute, gently tweak them so they look almost identical in indirect daylight, will they behave differently in incandescent light? Sunlight? Late afternoon light? (controlled lab light?) Unlike people, fruit, landscapes and other traditional painting subjects, technical ideas and objects don't have an "appearance" in any normal sense of imagery. They're imagined and depicted as visual ideas that guide us through complex phenomena. For example what do like bonds in molecules really look like? Or the quantum not-quite-existence of high vacuum-spawned subatomic particles? The softly dancing dynamic structures in complex fluids? What about "things" that are too small and too delicate for even the best electron microscopes (TEM - SEMs are toys)? I've found that many images scientists create serve as visual similes to data and hypotheses, and as visual metaphors for complex and often highly abstract concepts. These metaphors and their stylized interpretation inspire and guide my "abstract" work.

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