One thing I have learned while doing this project is the fact that “science” is something that cannot be thoroughly expressed in one single painting. While sitting down and thinking to myself “What exactly is science?” I realized that science is, well, everything! Science explores and challenges everything we think is real, it touches every inch of existence we know of and makes simple things seem very complicated. It makes us realize that we know so much, yet it is only a small percentage of what is really out there. Trying to find out how everything works and why, is what science is about. To know all this, we must often look beyond what we see as the truth; we have to imagine abstract descriptions of things we can’t see and think of things outside what we can feel and observe. Yet, doing all those things is equivalent to trying to complete a billion-piece puzzle with many missing pieces.

For this art project, I have not simply incorporated chemistry. It is the Art and Science project and science a lot more than just one branch of a big tree. I have tried to include as many aspects of science as I could, and that includes chemistry, astronomy, physics, biology, etc. Looking at my artwork now, the idea it is trying to convey is probably the fact that “science is not simple.” Honestly, I just let my imagination run while drawing and the artwork slowly took shape and often my thoughts while drawing this were no deeper than “it would look cool if I draw this.” This project took a lot of thinking, to the point where I was always thinking of ideas and just getting up and writing them down whenever they came to me: whether it was during a test or while trying to fall asleep at 2am. I tried to plan it out beforehand but kept on changing opinion every 3 minutes, so as I said, I just let my imagination go wild in the end.

It would take a lot of time to show and explain each and everything I drew in this artwork so I will only mention the important ones for this course. The most noticeable one I think is the legs, which were inspired by the double slit experiment. The pants have an atom model, some wave patterns and I attempted a little play on perspective if you can find it. One of the shoulders has the Rutherford gold foil experiment. The other shoulder expresses what I mentioned earlier about science being a giant puzzle with missing pieces. On the shirt, I was thinking of showing a sort of different dimension reality that was talked about in the Schrödinger’s cat experiment, where one side shows a destroyed world and the other side is a nicer clean world. I was trying to express that advance in technology and scientific knowledge is good but depending on how we use that knowledge can alter a lot of things in our world. Then there is also the visible spectrum in the middle on the drawing. The hand shows x-rays. The last thing I want to mention is the hair, which is made up of hundreds of tiny element symbols from the periodic table.