Rose-Lynn Fisher / Micro Sea

R O S E - L Y N N F I S H E R

TOPOGRAPHY OF TEARS

STARDUST: Bone & Botticelli

MICRO OCEAN

BEE

BODILY

YONDER aerial

ASHORE

WALLS/DOORS

MOROCCO

LIMEN

OCEAN IN A MICROSCOPE

I’ve been looking at microscopic views of tears and ocean drops, bees, and my own body - each investigation an homage to the myriad interconnections in nature, in all of life.

Under the microscope I've wandered around the dimensional forms of ocean salt crystals at various magnifications. At 100x, 250x, or 400x, a microscopic salt crystal can evoke an ambiguous sense of scale: a pyramid that would be massive in a different environment.

What appears to have heft and edge easily loses its boundaries when the range of focus no longer applies.

The seen and unseen become interchangeable by the slightest turn of the focal knob, revealing a realm of detail that was imperceptible just a moment before. Or the opposite, as texture and physicality melt away into a blur of nothing.

Such perceptual contradictions often seem fitting to me in a time when certainty is just one possibility.

OCEAN IN A MICROSCOPE