“The freedom and responsibility of selecting a palette for an image is both mine and the original scientists’,” says Jonathan Feldschuh, a painter based in New York who works with scientific images. His recent inspiration has come from simulations that visualize complex data, especially those representing phenomena that cannot be observed directly.
Scientists like to use colours objectively to represent information in such cases. Feldschuh also uses colour, to provide an aesthetic element, as in this image Drop Formation #2. Its warm tones contrast with its shapes, which are reminiscent of nuclear explosions.
‘Simulations’, an exhibition of Feldschuh's work, can be seen at the Cynthia Broan Gallery in New York until 9 July.
Alison Abbott
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Colour vision. Nature 435, 1162 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1038/4351162b
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