Artist of the Invisible

Contemplative biology is both an art of discovery and a science of astonishment

As a contemplative biologist, I have a passion: to explore this nanospace that light does not illuminate, and in these unseen territories, discover beauty, beyond the visible. The world, seen on the scale of a few microns shows me that beauty exists without any possible observer… What universal truth has enclosed in this natural museum these plant pyramids, these silk sculptures and these hieroglyphs of the living? My approach, at the frontier of science and art, is first and foremost philosophical: Seeing the invisible is an initiation; To contemplate the inaccessible enlarges our inner horizon and enriches us with a fundamental question: why is the Invisible beautiful?

PALETTE
PALETTE
LACE
LACE
Skin of a wood bug
The heart is the only way to see clearly, what is essential is invisible to the eye (Saint-Exupery).
FLOWER AMONG THORNS
FLOWER AMONG THORNS
Mineralisation below the spines of a sea urchin.
It is in the invisible that beauty shines…but we are unaware of it, because we are mere novices of perception.
GERANIUM
GERANIUM
Pollen
What is this creative impulse that pushes nature to such abundant forms, and to what end ?
WIND TRAVELLER
WIND TRAVELLER
Dragonfly wing
As I near unknown shores, my imagination is fired, Who knows what I will discover there?
ATLANTIS COLUMN
ATLANTIS COLUMN
Fragment of a sea ursin spine
FLY-UP
FLY-UP
Tip of a gnat’s leg
INTIMACY OF A ROSE
INTIMACY OF A ROSE
Respiratory cell of a rose stamen
Such immensity is hidden in the minuscule!
ONE AND A THOUSAND NIGHT
ONE AND A THOUSAND NIGHT
Birth of an English ivy bud
the story of the universe evokes the most magical of all metamorphosis: that of primitive chaos into harmony.
REVOLTING
REVOLTING
Apple Stamen with pollen and microplastic
MULTIDOCKING
MULTIDOCKING
Sand dollar found on Cape Canaveral beach
PLANET DINOSAURA
PLANET DINOSAURA
Oddity on a carbon sticker
PAPILLON
PAPILLON
ROCK
ROCK
Zeolithe crystal grown in zero gravity
STAR
STAR
Abyssal Zooplancton
Like astronauts, I escape from the visible, as they escape from the atmosphere, and we float, in opposite directions, at the extreme borders of our world
HOMMAGE A BLOSSFELDT
HOMMAGE A BLOSSFELDT
PLANETE INVISIBLE
PLANETE INVISIBLE
DEFORESTATION
DEFORESTATION
Relics of a butterly wing on a spider web
DA VINCI
DA VINCI
Pollen
From where comes this harmony that sips into every bit of life?
BEYOND THE VISIBLE
BEYOND THE VISIBLE
Sensitive pore on a scorpio’s claw
Like the horizon, the invisible is endless, it becomes vaster and slips through our fingers as we hunt it down.
ATLANTIS
ATLANTIS
Salt crystals and diatom on a sea ursin shell
ARISTA
ARISTA
Bristle hairs on a fly’s antenna
COSMIC SMILE
COSMIC SMILE
Respiratory ducts on a cap Canaveral’s gnat
DR HONORIS CAUSA
DR HONORIS CAUSA
Portrait of a wood bug
There is no creature without its reflection of infinity (Victor.Hugo)