![]() To capture the particles in motion and at their scale, I worked with specks of dust about 40 microns wide, at the limit of what we can see without the aid of lenses. It is left to the viewers imagination to wonder if the image could be the bright spots in the Milky Way or atoms seen through a high-tech microscope. The scale is intentionally left unknown by providing no familiar object for comparison. I use this commonplace occurrence to explore interesting visual possibilities that might remind us of a starry sky, or finely stirred deep ocean sediment or even as a visual immersion within a stream of flowing bubbles. These tiny spheres seem to whirl in unseen eddies, roil in orbits, settle in spots and move on to circulate on invisible flowing currents of air. My Nature of Particles series allows a safe distance for one to contemplate both positively and more recently, negatively, what could be happening below the threshold of unaided human sight. With an interest in art and science, I was left to interior observations which felt like harkening back to a time of DaVinci or Thoreau and detached observation of nature. ![]() The genesis of this concept revealed itself earlier this year from a combination of circumstantial and cognitive sources, as precautions and ultimately self-quarantine measures took hold in New York due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The Nature of Particles series consists of abstract photographs of ordinary particulates that we observe in our everyday surroundings as floating fragments seen in shafts of light.
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