Painting the Code of Life
How molecular plant cell biology became the visual language of my surreal landscapes.
Selena Yang
Writing
Studio notes on painting, plant cell biology, scale, collaboration, and the places that enter the work.
At What Scale Are We Looking?
Why a cell can become a landscape, and a landscape can behave like a cell.
Painting With a Plant Cell Molecular Biologist
Notes on a father-daughter collaboration across art, science, and ways of seeing.
How to Look at a Surreal Biological Landscape
A slow-looking guide to scale, structure, movement, and the living systems inside the paintings.
Listening to San Francisco
How overheard conversations at Ocean Beach, the Embarcadero, and the Mission become painted worlds.