Dec 5, 2010
The religious despair for atheists that with nothing but science
and rationality for inspiration, we can't appreciate the beauty of
art, music, poetry, prose nor the weaving of a rainbow. By
unweaving a rainbow, we are told that we miss out on the deepar
beauty that underlies the "mystery of being." Don't try to tell
that to my guests on this show. They will look at you, baffled,
because they both draw inspiration for their art from the wonders
of science. Lynn Fellman is a frequent guest on the show,
interviewing scientists she has met through the course of her art
career. She rarely gets the chance to talk about her own
specialties in art and so I asked her to be an interviewee. I also
asked one of my friends I haven't met, but only know through
internet interactions, Glendon Mellow of Toronto, Canada. Glendon
digs the artistic inspiration of fossils and trilobites. Both
artists are highly inventive in the ways thet they draw science
into their art and I will mostly be listening in to the
conversation as Glendon and Lynn talk about atheism, science and
art. Lynn Fellman is an artist bridging science and humanities
through art. Working in multiple media to make complex concepts
accessible, she also speaks and writes about the intersection of
art and science; most recently at the "Personal Genomes" meeting at
Cold Spring Harbor Lab. See examples of her work at
http://www.fellmanstudio.com/ Glendon Mellow is a freelance artist
living and working in Toronto, Ontario. His work has been chosen
for magazine covers and the book cover for The Open Laboratory
2008. Glendon's website: http://glendonmellow.com/
http://glendonmellow.blogspot.com/
http://flyingtrilobite.redbubble.com/