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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

... of other subjects and create other images. *This project was researched and developed during a residency at SymbioticA: The Art and Science Collaborative Research Laboratory at the School of Anatomy & Human Biology, University of Western Australia. For...

..."During my residency at the laboratory of Dr. Ana Pombo at the Imperial College London, I have created artworks using DNA and chromosomes as an art medium. In “nucleArt” I have used DNA molecules coupled to fluorescent dyes to paint specifically chromosomes, part of...

..."Artists have been trying to represent in portraits not only the physical appearance of the subject, but also characteristics of the personality, by using the pose, elements in the composition, and even the choice of technique. Science has developed powerful techniques...

... significantly determine how each of us becomes. As Mozambican writer Mia Couto once stated “Every Man is one race”." - Marta de Menezes

... the organisms in the other cubes appear, and yet observe the number of genetic similarities we share, painted with DNA." - Marta de Menezes