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Plaster, pigment and resin.

While Darkness Sleeps is a series of images of underwater creatures seen through the process of microscopy. Employing a dissection microscope, the specimen is placed in a Petri dish on the stage of the microscope. A camera is attached to the

Vanitas ( in a Petri dish), a series of digital photographs bringing the concept of vanitas into the 21st century. In prior centuries, vanitas paintings warned against the excesses of material culture. Expressing the futility of life and its

Biota is a porcelain sculptural installation employing the morphology of the sea sponge as a matrix. Arranged on low-standing Plexiglas platforms, the sculptures appear as if they were dead coral. In the sea, such exoskeleton frameworks signal the

... includes a live science experiment, the result of which is videotaped and repeated for the duration of the gallery exhibit.... researched and developed during a residency at SymbioticA: The Art and Science Collaborative Research Laboratory at the School of...

... live butterflies where their wing patterns were modified for artistic purposes. Such changes were achieved by interfering with the...

... writer Mia Couto once stated “Every Man is one race”." - Marta de Menezes

... of genetic similarities we share, painted with DNA." - Marta de Menezes

..."The project Tree of Knowledge explores interactions between art and science by using novel cell imaging and tissue culture technologies in...

I.E.D (Improvised Empathetic Device) The current U.S. led war in Iraq has suffered enormous casualties, where the toll on civilian lives in Iraq is vague and many times unreported. The number of U.S. casualties is reported and monitored, many of