March 30, 2020 by
Mireille Ghoussoub
With the COVID-19 pandemic threatening public health and rapidly spreading around the world, science communication has never been more timely. In their article, Professor Geoffrey Ozin and artist Todd Siler engage in cross-disciplinary collaboration to speak to what is currently happening around the globe.
The artwork displayed in this article intimates how a chance natural event can create a widespread human catastrophe; one that involves a molecular biological assembly, a nano-bio-scale material, as exemplified by COVID-19.