Installation documenting the first stages of research and prototyping done at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 2003 - 2005. In regards to bioArt and the technologies used, the installation served to explain lab methods as new tools for the emerging art field. (2007)
After spending countless hours staring down my microscopes, I wanted to bring the beauty of the miniscule to larger proportions. In the laboratory, I observe the curious growing patterns of muscle cells as they adapt to man-made cellular scaffoldings in vitro (outside the body). In the gallery’s back section was a larger-than-life, stylized rendition of muscle cells and proteins in a growth cascade engulfing the scaffold fibers. As in proliferate cell activity, the repeating patterns of cell branches reach out to adhere to its next contact point. Round protein globules regulate cell metabolism or communicate with other cells. This sculpture represents the third day of muscle cell growth in vitro as they try to organize within a new environment.
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