Carboxysomes
5 icosahedrons in waxed black wood, with thermal photos and glass half-spheres, set on wooden logs.

Ancient intuitions about science sometimes coincide with results obtained using contemporary scientific imagery. Objects of ancient knowledge are sources of formal inspiration. In micro-biology, carboxysomes are bacterial micro-compartments containing enzymes involved in carbon fixation. Their shape, discovered by electron microscopy, is that of an icosahedron, a Platonic solid.
Glass bubbles spread across the wooden icosahedron reveal thermal camera images of tree bark. The black wood and glass objects evoke ancient scientific instruments.
The series of pieces speaks of an intimacy with the tree without showing it, lying somewhere between the fantasized forest and Platonic solids.