Ai Arts Wonderland, Up Close

摘要

The fantastical beings Alice met when she fell down the rabbit hole turned out to be nothing more than figments of her sunshine-addled imagination. But when scientific illustrator Colleen Champ dove into the hidden world of photomicroscopist Dennis Kunkel, the outlandish creatures she encountered were real. To create the scenes in her collection titled Alice's Adventures in a Microscopic Wonderland, Champ combed through Kun-kel's images of creepy-crawlies like tapeworms and protozoa, all captured with a scanning electron microscope. A little Photoshop magic and-presto!-a corn fungus, a bit of black mold, and a cat flea became "The White Rabbit" (above). "I wanted to show people how beautiful these things are," Champ says. "It's a whole other universe we never see because we're so big." Guess we can save that bottle marked drink me for later.