Welcome to the Un-Verse

     Where everything is bent backward, and physics defies all logic. 

Hello, fellow earthlings, I am Marisa Connors, but you can call me Mars. I am a student at UAF who is more of an art admirer than an artist. If I have an art in anything, it would be the art of conversation. Although I have experience in acrylic painting, collage, watercolors, line art, and stipple. Currently interested in experimenting with gouache.

I am creating this blog per course requirements, but I also hope to channel my previous studies in STEM and pay homage to the weird and wonderful world it creates. A place where you lose your mind over Ohm's Law and count your blessings that you added up those resistors right because the schematics are missing 😳

Example Circuit Schematic: Class A common-base small-signal high-gain amplifier

But I also want to focus on the art behind the science. Nothing has ever impressed me more than the art required to articulate scientific discoveries, be it gravity, neurons, reflections, or wiring diagrams. There is beauty in everything if you simply look for it. 

Art created by Santiago Ramon y Cajal; Pyramidal cells of a cat's cerebral cortex.

It is necessary to understand the correlation between the sciences and their need to use art to convey what the naked eye cannot see. Art in the sciences was fundamental in informing future scientists and documenting new findings. It has allowed academia to carry on in ways that would otherwise be impossible without art.

Art Created by Filippo Brunelleschi; his invention of drawing in perspective, circa 1420.

In my blog, I hope to expand on how the sciences and art intersect. Using the skills learned in ART F200X, I will uncover the broken abilities of physics, discuss the various forms of "sacred geometry," and learn how art propelled scientific discovery into the stratosphere, even today. I find immense joy in expanding my point of view and hearing the stories of others, and the arts and sciences allow us to do this in both constructive and free-form ways. 

And I don't think anyone could say it better than Wilczek; 

"It is sometimes said that science and art are fundamentally different in their approach and their dominion, since science strives to be objective while the art is inherently subjective. The science of perspective demonstrates the superficiality of such claims. With perspective, our concern is how a scene actually looks to a particular person from a specific vantage point. It might be defined, indeed, as an objective study of subjectivity." 

So, I welcome you to my little slice of insanity, where perception and reality often question one another. Enjoy the blog!

Cited Sources:

Wilczek, Frank. “Why Physics Needs Art to Help Picture the Universe.” Interalia Magazine, Interalia Centre, 20 Jan. 2020, www.interaliamag.org/articles/frank-wilczek-why-physics-needs-art-to-help-picture-the-universe/.

Unknown Author. “The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1906.” NobelPrize.Org, Nobel Prize             Outreach AB, www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/1906/cajal/photo-gallery/. Accessed 23 May             2024.

Cook, Matthew. “Understanding Schematics - Technical Articles.” All About Circuits, Technical Article, www.allaboutcircuits.com/technical-articles/understanding-schematics/. Accessed 23 May 2024.