Microdrawings Statement
Between 1969 and 1971, I worked on a suite of 12 microdrawings using a
crow quill and india ink on Strathmore paper. I tried to focus upon
entering the worlds of microbiology, particle physics, and
astrophysics through the drawing medium. This journey was a process
of discovering a visual vocabulary to reveal the new landscape of art
and science, as stated in the title of a 1956 book by Gyorgy Kepes.
It was after I completed the series that I spent the summer of
1971 with Dr. Roman Vishniac in New York City experiencing his
interpretation of the art and science universe through
photomicroscopy.
Aribert Munzner