This isn't entirely relevant to my installation practice, but I find Fisher photographs really powerful. Each image looks like a destroyed or alien city or landscape from a high angle. Knowing what tears corresponds to what emotion adds a really interesting layer as you make correlations with the images and the words. For example tears of grief look barren and like a toxic waste land, whereas tears of laughter has large organic looking bubble shapes that are indicative of happiness.
"In 2010, photographer Rose-Lynn Fisher published a book of remarkable images that captured the honeybee in an entirely new light. By using powerful scanning electron microscopes, she magnified a bee’s microscopic structures by hundreds or even thousands of times in size, revealing startling, abstract forms that are far too small to see with the naked eye.
Now, as part of a new project called “Topography of Tears,” she’s using microscopes to give us an unexpected view of another familiar subject: dried human tears."
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| Tears of Grief |
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| Basal tears |
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| Laughing Tears |
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| Onion Tears |
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