JessHolz

Microscopy · Living Motion · Hidden Ecologies

Selected Works
Plankton Painting
Live microscopy, chronophotography, collected water samples

Plankton Painting

Live timelapse of aquatic microworlds

Umbra
Scanning electron microscopy

Umbra

Microscopic wildernesses illuminated by electrons instead of light

Borderlands
SEM video projection, Fresnel lenses, installation

Borderlands

Human / nonhuman vision

Plankton Performance
Live microscopy, projection, sound

Plankton Performance

Live microscopy as performance art

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Research
Laboratory

Process, experiments, and unfinished investigations. A look behind the lens.

Fluorescence Microscopy
Fluorescence→
High-Speed Video
High-Speed Imaging→
Schlieren Optics
Schlieren / Currents→
SEM
Scanning Electron Microscopy→
Microscopic violence / decomposition
Death / Decay→
Entwined bodily ecologies
Blood & River Water→
Archive

Living Archive

A growing collection of observations from the microscopic world. Organisms, behaviors, environments — drifting through water and time.

Copepods
Stentor
Diatoms
Tardigrades
Ciliates
Polychaete
Amoebae
Water Fleas
Bacteria
Worms
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Microscopy · Living Motion · Hidden Ecologies

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