Here is the unseeable without the aid of an electron microscope. Proteases! Many in the shape and style of a Pacman hungering for a Blinky ghost. Two summers ago I was charged with the task of painting these microscopic wonders for a chemistry lab at a Canadian university. Its founder, Dr. T, is an art lover and was looking for something different in a logo. He used the Pacman before because it’s symbol expresses protease function to laymen the world over. (This helps when the lab needs to secure grants from pharmaceutical board members who understand the science of money, but not biology.) Dr. T found me and got what he was looking for. Me too. The most lucrative week’s work I have ever had. I sent the images to him with an apology that none of them are what can be created by a graphic designer.
He loved them.
And one of them made it on the cover of a science journal:
Wow. Possible future Nobel Prize winners mingling with the likes of my art.
Better than Rolling Stone.
All paintings 18 x 18" on canvas, titles: Protease 1 - 10:
Had to cross out name of lab:)
