Microphotographic Artworks and Silkscreen Prints Created with Use of a Polarizing Microscope

Since 1972 the author has been creating art works relating to ‘the world under the microscope’. After drawing a wall mural of plankton floating through the universe, he constructed a wooden model of plankton, measuring 4 × 10 meters, and released it into the Pacific Ocean. The author later made silkscreen prints, based on the photographs of this event, which he expanded into two silkscreen series. One series was created by printing microphotographic images of Japanese handmade paper, washi, on sheets of washi itself. The other series was created with specimens of plant cell fibers. Since 1982 the author has been engaged in producing a silkscreen print series entitled Polarizing Microlandscape, utilizing a polarizing microscope and a four-color separation photographic process.