One To Follow: Rose-Lynn Fisher
a typography of tears…
Rose-Lynn Fisher Onion Tears
Rose-Lynn Fisher probably creates photographs like nothing you’ve ever seen before. Her series The Topography of Tears is a study of 100 tears photographed through a standard light microscope. Fisher is a fine art photographer who explores microscopic, cultural, and metaphorical thresholds. Her work is both artistic and scientific.
Rose-Lynn Fisher Tears of Grief
She uses both her own tears, and those of others to produce her works. The idea came to her when she was experiencing a period of great change in her life:
One day I wondered if my tears of grief would look any different from my tears of happiness – and I set out to explore them up close, using tools of science to make art and to ponder personal and aesthetic questions.
Rose-Lynn Fisher Tears of Elation
The images she captures emulate the landscape. Her work is a mixture of chemistry, and chance.
The random compositions I find in magnified tears often evoke a sense of place, like aerial views of emotional terrain. Although the empirical nature of tears is a chemistry of water, proteins, minerals, hormones, antibodies and enzymes, the topography of tears is a momentary landscape, transient as the fingerprint of someone in a dream. This series ls like an ephemeral atlas.
Exploring other tiny worlds, she’s also penned a book titled BEE, featuring sixty photographs of honeybee anatomy in magnifications ranging from 10x to 5000x. Her work is amazing, it will transport you to worlds you could never explore with the naked eye. Check out more of her photographs on her website here.
