
The colours and shapes of this hand- and laser-cut paper piece, resembling a coral reef, are used here to construct an imagined representation of a bacterial colony. As a biodiverse, symbiotic habitat existing in harmony, the coral reef is a perfect metaphor for the human microbiome, which is the vast colony of bacterial organisms that live in and on our bodies.
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Paper, Sculpture

Every one of his pieces starts with meticulous drawings