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Women in Science? Science in Art? >>

Madeleine Dodge, artist
Patricia Rankin, scientist

Blue cube unfolded/Palimpset
Mixed media on steel


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Palimpset: 'pa-lem(p)-,sest, pe-'lim(p)- n [L palimpsestus, fr.Gk palimsestos scraped again, fr. palin + psen to rub, scrape; akin to Skt . psati, bashasti he chews, (1825) 1: writing material (as a parchment or tablet) used one or mor times after earlier writing has been erased 2 : something having usu. diverse layers or aspects apparent beneath the surface

This is not an illustration of something visible to the human eye, but a record of process. This process only happens to become visible as art as the process of light being transformed into energy as it unfolds in time and space. Matter results, very similar to the structuring of the material universe. But what is the relationship between the actual structure and the process?