Piece description from the artist
A number of the drawings I've been working on use freehand details that combine with strong ruler assisted lines and compass and template constructed circles. The geometries using drafting tools construct the "bones" of each drawing. One advantage of using a toll like a compass to create perfect circles is concentricity. Circles can be closely nested, dashed line, thin line and strong line circles can be created, and it's relatively straightforward to create patterns of rings that share a common center or origin.
Having spent years interpreting different types of polycrystalline diffraction patterns, I find that these patterns of rings are informed by years of looking at, illustrating, modeling and analyzing that data.
I also spent years studying and understanding diffraction, scattering, elastic and inelastic versions of those phenomena, multiple scattering, absorption and all of the Physics around scattering and diffraction phenomena. The visualized ideas of propagating and interacting waves from multiple centers evoke that physics.
These two length scales and views of scattering events comprise the large part of the drawing, with minute details alluding to additional events and imperfections, and also evoking some of the detail and wonder of seeing a molecular structure in oddly graded and sampled patterns of arcs and rings.
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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