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Experiments

I decided to map patterns with a microscope myself. I started taking random pieces of material around me to put under my microscope. I realised that my microscope was not good enough to map most objects on the micro level I intended to. After trying everything around me I started using the microscope on myself, I realised then that the microscope worked very well on my own face and hands. The patterns I saw through the microscope were suprising, and then I realised that if i wanted to document patterns of something I see regularly but not in that way, that it would have to be myself.

The first results of the microscope on myself:

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  Mouth

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  Cheeck

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  Eye

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  Hair

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  Thumb

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  Knuckle

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  Arm

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  Wimpers

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  Tongue

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  Mouth

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  Hair

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  Eye

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  Mouth

Microscope

The microscope I use is from National Geographic and goes up to 350x zoom.

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Drawing Patterns

With the microscopic pictures of my face and hands I started tracing the patterns with a fineliner on transparent paper. I made a selection of the most interesting patterns.

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Inspiration

Bevshots

I felt inspired by the work from a company called BevShots, link > https://www.bevshots.com/ Their art is focused on the microscopic patterns created by alcohol. Finding patterns that exist but are not available to the human eye interest me. These are a few examples of their work:

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  micro image of Irish Pale Lager

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  micro image of English Oatmeal Bear

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  micro image of Tequila

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  micro image of Dirty Martini

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  micro image of Vodka Tonic

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  micro image of Champagne

Eckhard Völcker

Eckhard Völcker also works with microscopic patterns, he uses natural sources to explore. link> http://www.wunderkanone.de/

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