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This year’s exhibit is the study of Nature’s mysteries. All scientists stand at the edge of a precipice; behind them is the accumulated knowledge of their peers and preceptors and in front of them lies a fog of questions. As they cast out the torch of scientific inquiry, the fog either dissipates to reveal clear answers or thickens, leaving more questions.
As Walt Whitman said in his poem “Eidolons”:
Beyond thy lectures learn’d professor,
Beyond thy telescope or spectroscope observer keen, beyond all mathematics,
Beyond the doctor’s surgery, anatomy, beyond the chemist with his chemistry,
The entities of entities, eidolons.
The colorful layers of the image were created from oil pastel drawings and serve as a background to the mold Penicillium, which is central to the production of delicious cheeses, industrial enzymes, and, famously, the antibiotic penicillin. Usually, you might see this fungus as an offensive, dark piece of velvet cloth growing on rotten fruits. If you zoom in using a microscope, however, a different picture emerges; a branching tree whose individual units indelibly changed the landscape of medicine.
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