Science-end artistic interpretations

Using the literal/self model, which has its restrictions, proposed in a previous blog entry to aid/classify the interpretation process, I thought about some possible artworks that could be produced - mainly at the literal ('science-end') of the spectrum of interpretations. I might have a go at some of these myself using the micrographs directly or by manipulating photographs. The ideas are listed below. They may also serve to give further inspiration to others; I haven't really thought about the 'self-type' interpretations, although some of these ideas may provide pointers to this realm.

• Montage of small photos making the bigger picture.
  
• Big picture but smaller sample pictures leading to a false (or true) hint of the bigger picture - concept of adequate sampling.
  
• vertical lines, which could be DNA and/or hair, looking like a bar code to our identity.
  
• The default website image above to represent idea of scientific discovery: The strange excitement of an unfamiliar shore (from a Noel Coward song), expectations, like going on holiday, the unknown, known unknown etc (Donald Rumsfeld).
  
• Close ups/stepping back to get wider view.
  
• Bar code fragmentations/shapes: tracings of scale edges, undulating to jagged, left to right representing ageing.
• Pictures of what you expect to see prior to scanning - preconceived ideas.
• The brown scale: a photograph of an object, preferably aerial view (google maps?, a view directly looking down from Empire State Building) converted to the white-yellow-brown-black scale typically used with AFM (or any other colour scales/greyscales) - what is high is white, what is low is black etc: how it looks different from reality and hence how our accepted view of the AFM-perceived microworld might be different to reality.
• What is colour on the microscale anyhow?
  
• Face illuminated by torch from different angles (lighting from below looks sinister!) - importance of lighting/shading in microscopy.
  
• Surface architecture/fine structure - analogies to buildings (Cathedral).
  
• Landscape analogies - Arizona/Utah
• Representation of 3d - anaglyphs (red/green glasses).
  

 ~James