I have been very lucky to be paired with a scientist who explains her research well and involved me in each stage of analysing the microscopy images of the T-cells. The slide of the T-cell that I opted to base my engravings on for the lightbox is described by Annina:
“Technically, what you see on the blue stain are the nuclei of the cells in the thymus, some of them are developing T cells and some of them are the cells that express the autoimmune regulator (= the ones that eliminate the autoreactive T cells) which have the green speckles in the microscope image.”
What struck me about the image is that it has the appearance of a carborundum print, which I’m in the process of developing, but for the lightbox the engravings were appropriate as the light reflected beautifully within each cut line and created an illusion of great depth.
