TO THE HORIZON!
Art and Science: two fields regarded by many as different, if not entirely divergent. Our hope is to prove they are brethren, that they are kindred spirits working hand in hand to explain this weird and wild world that we kick around in.
If Jessica Hagy indexed the two spheres of art and science, the intersection would probably be “fractals or Cygnus Nebula.” Wait, on second thought, she would come up with something wittier than that, but I think Leonardo da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man is a perfect example of organic overlap. The familiar image can stand alone as art. It can stand alone as science. But deeper than that is a bond between the two. It is an indescribable feeling of connectivity between empirical illumination and inherent splendor: a sumptuous gaze into divinity through rudimentary eyes.
Look closer. Da Vinci’s man exhibits the proportions that reveal, in his words, the cosmography of the microcosm. That means, more or less, a map of the heavens and the earth as found in men and women, alike. Quite an enchanting notion.
