Answerable Questions & Questionable Answers to a Fly’s Visual System #I  

2002, 102 × 75 cm, 3D CGI, pigment ink on fine art paper, private collection

The title for this image is taken from an article in which a neurobiologist reacted to a colleague’s investigation of the visual apparatus of a fly under simulated field conditions: «Answerable questions and questionable answers from the visual system of the fly». My artistic answer, in turn, lies in a computer-modeled swarm of golden flies dominating the kitchen. They are golden because to electron microscopes, whole organisms, tissue samples, and other types of biological specimens, like this fly, would be mostly invisible. Thanks to the application of an extremely thin gold coating, the electron beam succeeds in capturing what was previously invisible.