A bacteriophage virus sculpture. This particular microbe ENTRANCED me as a child. The idea that it could land on a bacterium and infiltrate it without being quite *alive* in the accepted sense, and to have such a complex shape that enabled it to do so, on the scale of molecules? It boggled the mind of Young Soon.
Virus installation at Burning Man 2009
Remember when we were taught that this is what a virus looked like.
I’m not sure if it’s sad, or wonderful, that my first thought was Jimmy Neutron.
A bacteriophage virus sculpture. This particular microbe ENTRANCED me as a child. The idea that it could land on a...