About The Work
Mike and Doug Stern’s collaborative practice highlights the inherent transience and fragility of art, and of the photographic medium in particular. Often depicting organisms that undergo metamorphic transformation, they have recently devised an apparatus with a refrigerated flat plate that keeps snowflakes frozen until their unique forms can be captured through a microscopic lens. This body of work pays homage to “Snowflake” Bentley, the photographer whose experiments in photographic microscopy are responsible for our recognition that no two snowflakes are alike. “Simple and complex,” the artists write, “[snow crystals] are all the same and all are different, hexagonal crystals growing outward in branches from their six-sided molecule of H20.”
About Doug and Mike Starn
From The Magazine
Photograph
Archival inkjet print on Gampi paper with varnish and acrylic paint
32.50 x 25.00 in
82.5 x 63.5 cm
This work is signed on verso.
About The Work
Mike and Doug Stern’s collaborative practice highlights the inherent transience and fragility of art, and of the photographic medium in particular. Often depicting organisms that undergo metamorphic transformation, they have recently devised an apparatus with a refrigerated flat plate that keeps snowflakes frozen until their unique forms can be captured through a microscopic lens. This body of work pays homage to “Snowflake” Bentley, the photographer whose experiments in photographic microscopy are responsible for our recognition that no two snowflakes are alike. “Simple and complex,” the artists write, “[snow crystals] are all the same and all are different, hexagonal crystals growing outward in branches from their six-sided molecule of H20.”
About Doug and Mike Starn
From The Magazine
- This work is framed. Frame measurements are 40.00" x 32.00".
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