Stockholm-based Linda Westin left photography to pursue a PhD in neuroscience, specialising in super-resolution fluorescence microscopy – a group of imaging techniques that allows scientists to illuminate the structures inside cells by making them glow under specific wavelengths of light. When returning to the medium, she began to apply what she had learned, and started to look at forests, rocks, plants and stars with a newfound sensitivity. Now, Westin brings methods from neuroscience into artworks. These pictures present forest canopies as if they were neuronal dendrites, the branching extensions of nerve cells that receive signals. In the following pages, far-off mountains are framed by lush, layered boughs. They open like portals into other worlds, where the skies glow blue, pink, purple and red. Westin’s images are defined by their hyperreal, psychedelic colour palettes and a sharpness you can almost reach out and touch. @_cometalktome_ | cherrypievisuals.net
Image Credits:
1 Linda Westin, Dimensional Forest. Image courtesy of the artist.
2. Linda Westin, Autumn Tunnelling. Image courtesy of the artist.
3. Linda Westin, Do You Remember. Image courtesy of the artist.
4. Linda Westin, Feelings. Image courtesy of the artist.
5. Linda Westin, Memories of Green. Image courtesy of the artist.
6. Linda Westin, Illuminated Dendrology. Image courtesy of the artist.
7. Linda Westin, Come With Me. Image courtesy of the artist.
8. Linda Westin, Inside [Out]. Image courtesy of the artist.
9. Linda Westin, I Think We’re Already There. Image courtesy of the artist.
10. Linda Westin, Imaginary Evening. Image courtesy of the artist.
11. Linda Westin, Mind With Matter. Image courtesy of the artist.
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