MATERIALS, PROCESS, and PURPOSE

Unless otherwise indicated, the starting material for all images presented here is raw genomic data from the public domain and nothing else.  The physical structure of the DNA molecule itself is not the starting material.  Genomic data are strings of nucleotides (As, Ts, Gs, and Cs), and the images here derive from strings of 10,000 nucleotides or fewer.  With faster processing speed, the strings can be longer, and the process is experimentation.  

Visualization of genomic data is first achieved with the dot-plot, a mainstream tool used in genetics for over 30 years.  Dot-plots are then transformed in various ways, and the results may be generalizable in nature or speak to universal properties of the genetic code and its three billion years of evolution for life.   Two different types of transformation are displayed on the http://www.cell.com/pictureshow/bestof2013   and journal covers (e.g. Methods for these and other transformations have potential to cross-pollinate with genomics proper and to mix with a variety of other media, inlcuding photography

The subjects of the empiriacal abstract are truth and beauty, with a method that is reproducuble, certain, and fundamentally binary.   Hence, finished works stand strong behind a philosophy that is being realized as a gift from the 20th century post-modern, and if this rings true, please consider  that an artistic movements must be a shared process in the beginning.  -AF