Science and Engineering Week 2012 (by sarah)
It is National Science and Engineering Week here in the UK, this marks a festive sort of atmosphere in the science and tech communities where they try and reach out to the general public and show them just how much science, engineering and maths does for them, how exciting it is and what the future may hold.
Not being active in the science community as a researcher anymore I have hovered around things like this the last few years but with the inclusion of my artwork in the Science OnLine 2012 conference and being asked to do a second piece of textural science art for the visually impaired I feel I have something to offer back. Part of what I had wanted to do with science was to make it more reachable, exciting and loved by well everybody. This is why the first tentative steps I took into poetry after my degree tended towards science and technology.
So this week I am going to be posting some of my science-art on here and hopefully will complete the week with my science-art web site being back up and running!
To start today off - here is Celestial Montage which I created for the ESA Create Your Space competition a while back (and good an ESA goody bag for my efforts as runner up). The poem part of the piece also appeared as part of the In Braille Exhibition at Centre Arts last year.
The theme this year is Our World in Motion which I shall use as stimuli for various creative projects. Enjoy and see if there are any events you can mussel in on in your own areas 🙂
Did Life fall into this cradle
This Earth, this home -
We now attempt to climb out of?
Or is it more than a cradle
Some crucible or potters wheel
Shaping and baking us in forms renewed?
Maybe in truth it is a bit of both
And as humanity takes its first toddler steps
We begin to see the variety that our world holds
LIFE -
Life here investigated
In case of alien brethren
Life searched for by the heart if not the mind
As the astronaut steps out into the void
For themselves, for us, for a future
A future - As yet unknown
A future for us all
As we grow too large for this world to contain
A cradle we have explored from end to end
But it is only with eyes freshly opened
To the wonders beyond
That we begin to see what we have missed
That which hides in plan sight
The beauty of our world
We seek its twins, our mirrors -
Its twisted folly of form
OUT THERE
And if we are on our own?
Then look at the wonders the search has wrought
And if we are not?
Then maybe we will truly see ourselves
For the first time
Until then the void is calling
And all these things?
These investigations
These satellites
And images -
Are our jumping off point
Our call to the unknown
Do you wonder what it will answer?
Art and Craft, Astronomy, Events and Outings, Poems, Sarah, Sci/Tech, Work | sarah | 
Mon 12th Mar 2012 8:57 am
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