The Beauty of silica biomorphs
Desde mis primeros estudios sobre la cristalización en geles durante mi tesis doctoral, me fascinó la belleza de las formas que adoptan los biomorfos de sílice en los tubos de ensayo. Hans Henisch, mi mentor en Penn State University y editor tanto del Materials Research Bulletin como del Journal of History of Photography siempre me animó a editar un libro con esas fotos. Un libro que nunca monté porque aún no sabía cómo se generaban esas estructuras y eso me parecía un fracaso. Hoy, que estoy ya cerca de comprenderlo, ya es momento de empezar a pergeñarlo.
4 de enero de 2009
Since my very first studies on crystallization in gels during my PhD thesis, I was fascinated by the shapes that the silica biomorphs adopt inside the test tubes. Hans Henisch, my mentor in Penn State University and editor of Materials Research Bulletin as well as of Journal of History of Photography always encouraged me to publish a book with these pictures. A book I never staged because I did not know yet how those structures were formed. That seemed like a big crash to me. Today, that I am so close to understand almost everything, time has come to begin sketching it out.