Bio-Portrait

This is not a picture made by a computer program, this is the wonderful work of Jeffrey B. Wyckoff, diplomed of Bachelor of Science in 1963 and degree of Master of Fine Arts. This is a photo transfer on Petri dish with bacteria on agar, realised in 1999, questionning the limits between the Sciences and Arts.

“As an artist, I have created work that explores the notions of form as it relates to all structures and shapes from the finite to the infinite. [...] I have produced an art that explores the essence of the physical make up of the world around us [...] As a research scientist, I have spent much time observing in awe the beauty and mystery of the biological cellular life. [...] I brought the theory and hypothetical basis of science and the experimental approach of discovery to my art.”

You can find more details about it on the website:

http://www.imageandnarrative.be/performance/vangelder.htm