Do you think that art and biology have nothing in common?
the eye of a biologist is always capturing colours and silohuettes, his heart touched by them.
art is in every non living and living being aroud us.

well, just have a look at these images;

Gleotrichia colony, cyanobacteria;
reminds me some William Turner's strong complexions;










old culture of Microcystis aerogenosa, cyanobacteria, imaged with autoflorescence; makes me think about some Gustave Klimt's glamours.

Nostoc colony, cyanobacteria. These are the cyanobacteria that I'm interested in the most.
Reminds me some Kandinskij's silohuettes and compositions.


This frozen fossil, called stromatolite and created by an intense and extended metabolic activity of some eucaryotic alga and cyanobacteria, seems like a heart :-)

All these images are coming from http://www-cyanosite.bio.purdue.edu/images/images.html,
a very rich and interesting site concerning a modern research-topic.
(I was just preparing myself to the botany exam that I have to pass next wednesday).

Aus Süddeutsche Zeitung—Samstag/Sonntag 9./10. Juni 2007:

“Sieht man sich selbst von Auβen, denkt man: Ein Witz.”

:-)

Vergiß die menschliche Gefühle;
Dies schwebt da oben
wo die Wolken die Berge berühren;
Ist nicht sichtbar
auch nicht versteckt, sondern subtil spürbar,
wie das Licht in Mondnächte.

Vergiß das Geduld, die Wartezeit ist ungestörte Anschein;
unsere Geschichte wird weitergeschrieben
und getippt und gelesen und geliebt.

In diesem Bewusstsein tanzen aufgeregte
und verrückt gewordene körpern,
lachen die Herzen,
weinen die Augen,
klätschen die Hände
und fliehen den Horizon folgende Füße.

-Some months ago I wrote this poem in german language; Finding it a week ago I just could not figure out, how i could manage to do it....it was dated 24. February 2007 h 16:55-

25. Mai 2007

Florian: "Die Augen zu und durch!!"