Feeling Science Project

 

Selected Works from

`A Journey Through Evolution´

 

Cell Design Nr.1

Acrylic and oil on linen; 70×80 cm; 2024

 

 

 

Ribosome close up 

Oils on linen, 60x80 cm, 2022

Delicately the endoplasmatic membrane rests on the cell core, while protein vesicles rise into the cellular sky.

 

 

The present collection of paintings, created over recent years, is titled A Journey through Evolution. It comprises works inspired by cellular biology and the processes of evolution.

 

The work unfolds as a narrative through the course of evolution — from design to thoughts of transcendence.

Each painting serves as a stepping stone along this path. It is therefore not an exhibition of individual works. Rather, the work itself emerges from the interplay of the paintings within the narrative they collectively unfold. Only as elements of this larger whole do the individual paintings acquire their full significance.

The aim of the work extends beyond the artistic representation of scientific imagery or the illustration of scientific concepts. Rather than communicating discrete pieces of knowledge, it seeks to evoke an intuitive sense of a realm of inquiry that is ordinarily the domain of science.

 

 

 

 

In Golgi, proteins arrive at their final workshop. They are modified, sorted, packaged, and dispatched toward their destinations. Countless microscopic journeys unfold simultaneously, each guided by molecular recognition rather than conscious intention. The cell resembles a city without an architect, where order emerges from innumerable local interactions.

Golgi in the Sky

Oil on linen, 60x45, 2023

 

 

 

Nucleus with Membrane Scarf reveals the endoplasmic reticulum embracing the nucleus like an ever-changing fabric. Here proteins are synthesized, folded, and prepared. The cell becomes a workshop whose elegance lies not in rigid order but in coordinated movement.

Nucleus Nr 3 with Membrane Scarf

Oils on linen, 60x90 cm, 2024

The cellular helm draped with an endoplasmic scarf.

 

 

 

The Light reminds us that our vision of life is mediated by science. Cells are removed from their natural surroundings, fixed upon glass, illuminated beneath the microscope, and briefly revealed before disappearing forever. Knowledge itself depends upon moments of interruption, transforming living processes into visible images.

A Cells Eye View of the Universe 

In the light of the microscope

Oils on linen, 50x60 cm, 2022

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As cells cooperate, larger patterns emerge. Cells, Tissues, Organs, No. 5 reveals how individual lives surrender part of their autonomy to create something greater. Cells become tissues, tissues become organs, and organs together sustain organisms whose abilities cannot be understood by examining any single cell alone. Complexity is born from relationship.

 

Cells, Tissues, Organs - Nr.1 

Watercolour, 35 x 45 cm, 1984

Hierarchy of systems - universal pattern 

 

 

 

As cells cooperate, larger patterns emerge. Cells, Tissues, Organs, No. 5 reveals how individual lives surrender part of their autonomy to create something greater. Cells become tissues, tissues become organs, and organs together sustain organisms whose abilities cannot be understood by examining any single cell alone. Complexity is born from relationship.

 

 

Cells, Tissues, Organs Nr.5

Watercolour, 40 x 60 cm, 1984

 

 

 

Science Art - Penicillium

Penicillium in its hyalin splendor

Oil on linen, 50x60cm, 2022

 

 

 

Beginning from a mere play of patterns evolution reaches a critical level complexity: mankind.

Evolution

Oils on linen, 60x80 cm, 2023

 

 

 

A Pensive Moment in Evolution 

Oil on linen, 60x80 cm, 2023