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posted by Jeremy Drummond on August 30, 1999 at 03:23:18:
in reply to: candid and smoke-free posted by Jack on August 11, 1999 at 22:39:43:
Linking Together My last response touched upon the connections made within the site pertaining to art/science and life/nature. This site does a nice job of pulling you through a variety of these connections and/or comparisons. Factual scientific photographs are paired with models of fetal lungs, Arctic ice formations mimic embryological lung cells and everything matches- up with Islamic art patterns... and the connections continue. Science relies on art for a better factual understanding, the natural world and the natural lung share similar patterns of formation, religious art pulls from both the human body and nature to construct patterns and designs. It becomes suggestive that science, nature and art may not be as distinctly seperate from one another as they may seem. It may even be that they depend upon one another in order to keep their distance. Art may look to science for many answers and science may look to art for ways to prove or illustrate the "only" answer. Needless to say, it's a very complicated issue. As Rob Labossiere stated in an earlier response to the site; most scientific art lacks culture and "scientific belief" is a troubling pair of words. I feel that this project helps bridge this gap. It doesn't focus on art or science but on how the two work together. It illustrates the links between art/science and life/nature without suggesting one has strength over the other. It is a challenge to struggle with these complex ideas but interesting and enlightening none the less. As for not smoking, it's been one whole month. Jeremy Drummond Follow Ups:
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