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//Saturday, May 19, 2012 7:32 PM
I AM THE NEXT DA VINCI.
Yesterday, I read an article about artists and inventors: http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2011/aug/21/collaborations-between-artists-and-scientists
It made me think about a lot of things, about why I do the work I do, and how I see myself. And I have decided that I am a creator--as much an artist as an inventor--very much like Da Vinci in his time.  This was the very photo on the article; Sir John Sulston with I. For those not familiar with my work, I did a portrait called Sir John Sulston back in 2001. Literally speaking, it was a complete likeness, as perfect as portraits can go.  This was the portrait. Where, you ask? No, not the man behind the framed sheet of that something. That something is the portrait itself. Before you narrow your eyes and wonder if I am fooling around with you, let me inform you that Sir John Sulston is one of the scientists who decoded the human genome. He did about one-third of the work that has changed science and human history. Today, God knows how many lives his work has saved by allowing scientific research to take its course. It seemed oddly fitting that I should use him as my subject in this portrait, made not of paint but of the man's own genes. Literally speaking, it is the most realistic portrait that has ever been made, and that can ever be made.  This is a portrait of our shared inheritance, Sir John Sulston told me. He believed in it because it was a medium that could have portray anyone else, but also only portrayed one person. I think the fascination with it was that it spoke of shared ancestry. It transcends skin colour and race and religion and appearance and even time. It connects us with everyone else, those who have lived, are living or are going to live in the future, After all my work in relation to science, I got to think about Da Vinci and how he is the most reknown artist, and is after all that still an inventor, a scientist, and with a mind of his own class. Apart from creating conceptual designs of cannons, helicopters and other flying machines, scuba gear and other things unheard of in his time, Da Vinci also had a fascination with anatomy of humans and animals (especially horses). In his age, he dissected human corpses to paint the most realistic human figures, much like how I employed the use of genes to portray most accurately the human subject. He was the first to draw the appendix of the human and the foetus in the womb; I was the first to represent my head in blood. I am the Da Vinci of my time. |
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