Piece description from the artist
Mixed media – digital drawing, painting and manipulation of transparent layers on a recolored scanned pen and ink and art marker drawing.
There are some pieces that really cry out for a different version or format, more detail or other features that are best realized digitally. The chemical properties of inks would make this difficult to draw as white lines on a black background, especially in areas where there are opaque white fine lines. Digital mixed media solves the problem.
This is pretty much an "ultimate" artists realization of where I'd want one of my ink drawings to go… if ink had the same "magic" properties as digital. Zooming allows extremely fine details in a big file with a lot of pixels. The texture and grainy imperfections of scanned ink lines contrast with smooth digital details. The overall effect is of some ancient structure that has continued to evolve through new growth; new built structures staking out and reimagining old relics. Paths taken, decisions never made, staked out in our imaginations of the multiverse.
Dr. Regina Valluzzi has an extensive scientific background in nanotechnology and biophysics. She has been a scientist in the chemical industry, a green chemistry researcher, a research professor at the engineering school at Tufts, a start-up founder engaged in technology commercialization, and a start-up and commercialization consultant.
Even during periods of intense activity as a scientist, Dr. Valluzzi has always held a strong interest in the visual arts and in visual information. While she majored in Materials Science at MIT, she also obtained a second degree in music and a minor in visual studies. Visual arts have managed to permeate her technical work; during her Ph.D in Polymer Science and Engineering at UMass Amherst, she completed a thesis that required advanced electron microscopy, image analysis, and theoretical data modeling. These experiences provided the visual insight and information that now influences much of her artwork.
Dr. Valluzzi’s work has been included in private collections across the US, UK, Germany, Canada, Japan, Netherlands, Switzerland, Bulgaria, Dubai and Malta, and in the corporate collection of "Seyfarth Shaw" Boston law offices around Boston. She has a selection of pieces on loan to the MIT Materials Science and Engineering Department as indoor public art. Her accomplishments include having published thirty articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals, having made several scientific patents, having been a subject matter expert for an encyclopedia chapter, and having been invited to speak at science talks across the US, Europe, and Japan.
Her newsletter is a good source of ongoing information: http://eepurl.com/daiLQ
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