Video: Glass viruses. Glass microbiology by Luke Jerram
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
British sculptor and artist Luke Jerram is not known to the world for his paintings or installations. What made it famous is made of glass and is called Glass microbiology. Once having visited an exhibition of these glass sculptures, people begin to look at life completely differently and relate to their health. Although the author pursued not only these goals, creating these masterpieces in the laboratory.
"Dear Luke, I just saw the sculpture you made, and I was shocked. I can't stop and stop staring at this magnificent creation, while millions of these guys are in me now, and they will be with me for the rest of my life. I could not even imagine how beautiful it looks that is killing me! " This anonymous letter from an AIDS patient was received by sculptor Luke Jerram immediately after his Glass microbiology was released. And one can hardly imagine a higher appreciation of such creativity, because Luke Jerram creates sculptures of microbes and viruses that kill humans from glass.
The idea of the exhibition is to make people think about what terrible and sometimes disastrous consequences are sometimes hidden behind a beautiful and at first glance harmless appearance. And the gigantic, in comparison with the "original versions", the size of the sculptures, the diameter of which sometimes reaches 22-50 cm, should demonstrate the global nature and scale of the problem.
By the way, all the sculptures were designed and created thanks to the advice of virologists from the University of Bristol, and were based on various scientific photographs and models that are in the teaching laboratories of medical institutes and research institutes.
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