Piece description from the artist
This drawing is sort of a "meta musing". Having worked with diffraction and scattering a lot over the years, these technical concepts have become one of my personal metaphors for approaching and understanding life in general. Thought and ideation are particularly fascinating – the ways that ideas coalesce and emerge, bounce of one another, refract and scatter. Some of the words we use to describe ideas are also the terminology of scattering and diffraction – scattered, coherent, incoherent, interference, etc. One can layer scattering metaphors to describe ideas to describe scattering phenomena, which characterize "objects" that are basically understood as pure idea anyway – nothing to see or touch, just abstractions around data.
Archival pigmented ink and pigment based art markers on archival paper. Created by hand using drafting tools and freehand techniques. Metallic details.
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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