Artist Statement

Beauty at this Dimension

This mural, located on the 5th floor (science floor) encompasses the themes of molecular biology. The idea behind it is to demonstrate the beauty in the processes of life at the microscopic level and to encourage the curious minds of the school to embrace the fact that interesting scientific questions only add to the excitement of the world around us. Inspired loosely by a Richard Feynman quote (below) and vik muniz's figures in the second avenue subway, I created figures and crawling vines that would look like they were each minding their own business in the stairwell, as the students would be doing. I wanted to paint something that the kids could easily relate to, something that they can reach out and touch or stand next to and feel as though they have company. The patterns in the leaves of the vines and bodies of the figures are cells—human cells for the figures and plant cells for the vines including details of metaphase, anaphase, prophase, and telophase. There is so much beauty in the smaller dimensions, in the questions that add a more profound essence and meaning to things and I hope that this mural could magnify that.