Sasha R. Gregor ‘s art project Lacrimosa is made of high magnification tears shed by family, friends, and even celebrities. Why? Emotional tears have so many proteins and hormones that the structure of the tear is affected. At high enough magnification, a tears is a unique as a fingerprint. Here’s more from Art the Science:
One day, I was surprised to find my girlfriend crying (nothing too serious, luckily). After reassuring her, the image came to mind of how the internal structure of that substance—the tear—was capable of symbolizing the affective and emotional capability of the human being.
With permission granted, I captured one of the tears that had spilled from her eyes with a microscope slide glass, and the next day, I went to the laboratory to solve the enigma. The surprise was great: the chemical composition of the tear (salts, proteins, lipids, hormones, etc.), together with the power of the photomicroscope and the epistemic character of light, revealed a wonderful landscape of shapes, geometries, and colors.
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