“Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.”
So reads the quote of French mathematician Blaise Pascal, emblazoned across the top of photographer Marcus DeSieno’s website. There’s probably no better phrase to describe the sublime oddity that is the artist’s series “Cosmos.” In essence: he allows bacteria gleaned from the seats of toilets and the bottoms of motel hot tubs to eat away at images of the universe — elliptical galaxies, planets, nebulae and all. The “microscopic and macrocosmic coalesce” into a whole new universe that looks something like this:
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Feast on the series below:
