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The primary concept of the work is that personal significance marks meaning in science, art and life.
The work will visually provoke this concept and will create relevance for the primary audience of the work – those faculty and students using the lab within those disciplines referenced by the symbols, numbers, words, codes and phrases. It is a work about them and for them. For the “accidental tourist” – those walking through the building – it may be foreign and therefore will create points of engagement, curiousity and beauty; there will be an immediate recognition of “meaning” or relevance to place, even for those who don’t know the precise meanings.
I believe this is what gives significance to public art – when it is developed with the primary audience in mind; when it has the ability to engage viewers within a public space through ideas, concepts and meaning that has relevance to their lives.
Having said that, this work also references my own practice as a visual artist. I am interested in the random patterning of nature and the power and poetry of signs, symbols and “impactful” words within scientific disciplines. As a non-scientist, I am intrigued by how scientific symbols and codes (simple numbers, words or abstract signs) reference incredibly complex and diverse content. I am especially interested in investigating how science represents the “unrepresentable” with visual signs and symbols (as evidenced in my work about scientific representations of the universe). Therefore, even though I am audience sensitive in this work, it is also an extension of my own research. I will learn and further my own investigations, as I hopefully provoke critical thinking, enjoyment and meaning for the users of the public spaces.
