Landscapes for Galileo
This series navigates the hidden landscapes of antique or handmade microscope slides and other objects. Rather than aiming to discover or define particular structures within these micro-worlds, they are explorations to find beauty and complexity in the most everyday objects.
The microcosm evokes a strong resemblance to cosmological photography. The title for this series, Landscapes for Galileo, pays homage to this, and to the man who invented modern telescopes and first pointed them at the sky. But it is also something of an in-joke - among his other achievements Galileo came up with the square-cube law, which governs how objects are scaled up or shrunk down, and serves as a proof for why miniaturisation, or the shrink ray from science fiction, is impossible. These are landscapes for the man who proved it is impossible to walk among them as such.
The microcosm evokes a strong resemblance to cosmological photography. The title for this series, Landscapes for Galileo, pays homage to this, and to the man who invented modern telescopes and first pointed them at the sky. But it is also something of an in-joke - among his other achievements Galileo came up with the square-cube law, which governs how objects are scaled up or shrunk down, and serves as a proof for why miniaturisation, or the shrink ray from science fiction, is impossible. These are landscapes for the man who proved it is impossible to walk among them as such.
