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SEM / Nanographia
Start an image collection. Identify and classify the creatures you find by naming them according to standard species taxonomy. Generate at least three images of different magnification levels per specimen, including one low magnification (aperture (circle area) visible). Comply with the studio wide naming convention, and include the scale bar for every image. Save highest resolution images and keep a copy of the original file as well as an enhanced (ps) version.
SEM / Taxonomy
Develop an alternative taxonomy based on the morphological and structural families within your collection. Specify a set of privileged terms that best describe the morphological and tectonic qualities you have identified in your collection.
SEM / Autopsy
Start a drafted 'autopsy' to reveal the workings of a few found creatures. In a series of drawings, conduct a geometric and morphological study of the natural assembly. Identify growth – and combinatory language that defines the role of the part to the whole, cell to lattice. Construct from your research material, do not trace. (Maya 2D / Illustrator)
Establish the natural models' pattern-building capacities, as well as the spectrum of gradual cellular change (size, proportion) within a given field.
Robert Hook: Micrographia, 1664
Micrographia is a historical book by Robert Hooke, detailing the then twenty-eight year-old Hooke's observations through various lenses. Published September, 1664, it was an immediate best-seller. Hooke most famously describes a fly's eye and a plant cell (where he coined that term because plant cells, which are walled, reminded him of a monk's quarters).
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