A zine project
A body of zines that teases several aspects of society’s relationship with science, scientists’ relationship with science, the process of doing science, labor, and craft required in scientific practice, and related questions.
Crafting a mutant fly
Science is a public good. It is usually performed with means acquired through public funding, and is meant for very human endeavors like understanding self and surroundings, and sometimes creates technology in return that leads to improvement of human lives, non-human lives, and the environment they inhabit.
Doing science always seemed like a performance to me, moving objects and materials across. Isolating, tearing, teasing, mixing, isolating, viewing, manipulating, and other ‘verb-ings’ were a way of life. This was particularly true of the reductionist work I did when I was in the laboratory. In this project, I turn my gaze as an outsider to a fly facility that creates mutagenic flies for use by other scientists and laboratories. In this process, which is novel to me, I try to understand the performance, the habits, the idiosyncrasies, and the craft of people that make the mutant flies through participant observations, sketches, pictures, and conversations.
Doing science is a personal endeavor, but it makes sense only in the social context. Each scientific thought is discussed and dissected by a community of experts at different stages of its development. These zines explore various aspects of ‘doing’ / ‘thinking’ science.
While looking at scientific visualizations, one of the obvious responses is commenting on beauty. But one can question, what beauty means here, is it aesthetic? Or what does the image tell about the universe? Or about the human endeavor to capture it? Pondering these questions resulted in these zines.
Womxn Braving Virus Fears
In this collaborative zine, I worked with Aashima, Nandita, and Sayantan of thelifeofscience.com to visualize and emote the effect the pandemic had on care-workers of varying categories and highlighted the contribution of womxn working to bring people relief, information, and hope.
Testimonials
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