THE ART OF SCIENCE TUESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2013 AT 4:00PM I met Nick Mayer when ordering a gorgeous Blue Lobster print of his. I have this thing about Blue Lobsters, seeing them in Maine and as a metaphor for innovation in that this rare phenotype results from serendipity and random collisions of genes. Nick's art is an amazing and beautiful integration of art and biology in watercolor. Here is Nick's powerful story of how Science is Art and Art is Science. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Art and science have played an analogous, ever-present role in my evolution as a person, like two arms of a chromosome swinging in a cell’s cytoplasm during metaphase, at times distant then colliding and exchanging information. As a child . . . read more
