https://contemporaryartumd.artinterp.org/omeka/files/original/401120168ec4b2009a37688d6fbbeb29.jpg 855b381a648edb5e108abc473ae629cc Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Flame-worked glass. Artist Proof. Physical Dimensions The actual physical size of the original image 7.5 x 7.5 x 7.5 inches Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource <em>HIV, Series 2</em> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2011 Relation A related resource 2010-2011 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource JPEG Type The nature or genre of the resource Still Image Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 2011.1.3 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Luke Jerram Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Courtesy of the artist Description An account of the resource From the "Glass Microbiology" series In his “Glass Microbiology” series, Luke Jerram contemplates the global impact of major diseases and considers how artificial coloring of scientific imagery affects public understanding of these phenomena. Here he represents a single molecule of the human immunodeficiency virus, isolated and magnified by a factor of one million to a scale viewers might imagine holding in their hands. Jerram uses glass to replicate the natural transparency of virus particles, which are too small to reflect visible light. Designed with virologists from the University of Bristol and produced with professional glassblowers, sculptures in this series explore the tension between the destructive impacts of such diseases and the beauty of their forms. As one viewer wrote to the artist in 2009, “I can’t stop looking at it. Knowing that millions of those guys are in me, and will be a part of me for the rest of my life . . . It’s a very odd feeling seeing my enemy . . . and finding it so beautiful.”