Thinking about perspective and expression through science and art makes me more conscious of the natural world as well as my surroundings. It seems almost too simple that the sciences and arts should be so closely related, but at the same time, they are worlds apart. Literally. I can’t even fathom how forward-thinking Leonardo da Vinci was during the Italian Renaissance. That was what, 500 years ago? Looking at science and putting those thoughts into paper and making it a vision is already difficult enough today in contemporary 2009.
Another question I had was: How do we harness the human creativity to make our abstract ideas something tangible and utterly concrete?The process of visualization to make the vision a reality seems to be innate and almost intuitive, fueled by another abstract idea. Eventually the momentum just builds up as good ideas just keep coming, and somehow, the the intangible is suddenly within grasp. Human intellect coupled with human creativity are one and the same in this process.
Another thing that truly blows me away is the macroscopic size of our world and this reality compared to the microscopic nanotechnology. There are so many levels of small and nanoscience is the smallest of the small. The scale of the world makes humans feel insignificant. There’s so much more out there. But humans are doing a great job of still making the world seem more in our control. There was no better example of extent of how humans are making sense of the world and finding ways to manipulate it than the scanning electron microscope and the atomic force microscope. I didn’t even know things could get that small! Not being able to see things is messing with my mind and making me think more abstractly. I guess that’s the point of this camp though.
http://www.myhero.com/myhero/hero.asp?hero=Leonardo_da_Vinci
http://74.125.155.132/search?q=cache:HzxYEWktbr8J:www.conversationswithmyself.net/files/CWM_V_Visual_Reality.doc+visualization+of+the+intangible&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
http://www.nanoscience.com/education/AFM.html
http://www.unl.edu/CMRAcfem/semoptic.htm
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- Image from the electron microscope
