2009 Exhibition: Macroscope | Shona Wilson
2009 Exhibition: Macroscope
20 October - 14 November 2009
Full colour catalogue available $10
Most life on earth is invisible to the naked eye.
‘Macroscope’ brings focus to the microscopic organisms known as Diatoms. Diatoms are a sub group of planktons - the most abundant life form and food source in our oceans. Magnified, these wondrous structures reveal universal patterns and forms which are seen in cross cultural indigenous imagery and new scientific theory. In this sense these organisms are metaphors for the building blocks of life itself - appearing like the skeletal remains or fossils of some imagined past or future.
‘Diatom’ comes from the Greek for wanderer or drifter, unable to swim against the ambient flow but using wind upon the water surface to keep themselves suspended, they are totally subject to their external environment. Each work embodies a piece of found beach plastic magnifying a disturbing discovery. Recent research shows that plastic has infiltrated planktons. This is a marker for our far reaching interruption into the natural order.
‘Macroscope’ exposes and questions how we affect and morph the natural world at its ‘unseen’ levels.
Shona Wilson
April 2009