Chris May

Portfolios : Cyanospheres      Artist Statement

Long gone are the gentlemen scientists and the expert generalists. The Cyanosphere series harkens back to those days where inventors reigned, seeking to understand the truths of the universe. These images are illustrations of an imaginary science, visual representations of the unseeable. The series shows the incredible range of mystery in the universe and the beauty one can find while searching for truths. The unknown should not be shunned but sought out.

Circles, rife with symbolism, are a personal entry point into the work. The circles, so open to interpretation, set up a dichotomy in the work: while enticing viewers to understand the universe through science by seeking truth, there is no truth in these images. There is nothing empirical here, only subjective. They are, in fact, the opposite of science and truth. They are figments of whimsey.


Cyanospheres


Hyponatremia, certainly

Norepinephrine–Dopamine Reuptake Inhibitor

Cosmic Orgone Engineering

Teslaphoresis

Schwarzschild Metric

Avian Magnetoreception

Ruhmkorff's Apparatus

Pseudo-Riemannian Manifold

Beef, Sheep, Pig

The Stag's Parabolic Musings

Soft Gamma Repeater

Luneburg Lens Projector

The Implied Square of the Group of Five

Troubled Sines

The Penumbra of Insight

Plasma Supported Chemical Vapor Deposition

Variation: Multiples


Transfinite Induction

Uranographia

Variation: Acrylics


Stroboscopic Sheilds

Realgar

Celestial Navigation #2

Digital (the in and the out)

Variation: Copper


Air Gap

Intraocular Lens Folding

Interlacing of the Collimated Beam

Center of Curvature

The Pulfrich Effect is a Psychophysical Percept

Variation: Vertical


Studying the Decay of Elementary Particles

If Other Steroids Were Present

Mercator Projection

Hormone Cartography

Axonometric Projection