Cellfies: cellular self portraits
Simon Park and Heather Barnett
In the context of the selfie, and the relentless sharing of these images via social media, today’s population is probably more familiar with the image of the self, than the generations of any time in the past.
The selfies on display here, of an artist and scientist, are taken at 1000-times magnification, and using a powerful Differential Interference Contrast microscope. The result is a far more intimate version of the selfie phenomenon, and reveals the elegance of life when observed at the cellular level. The microscope reveals nucleated human epithelial cells, bacteria from the microbiome, and cells from the human immune system.
The large active cells from the immune system are white blood cells, probably Eosinophils. The large intracellular structures within these are the nuclei containing the genomes of the artist and scientist, and the cytoplasm of these cells fizz with much smaller antimicrobial crystalloid granules.
This film was made for Menagerie of Microbes, an exhibition celebrating the complexity of microbial life at The Laboratory Gallery, Summerhall, Edinburgh, 26 March - 13 May 2016. Info at: www.ascus.org.u... and heatherbarnett....
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