Science Meets Art

There are some fantastic cross-over between these two ever-changing genres.  Here, in my own city Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, there is a fantastic example that pays testament to this.  It takes the mundane (shopping trolleys) and twists these day-to-day objects into an alpha helical shape to celebrate the structure of DNA.  The use of these common objects in the making of this nucleic acid is fitting as the need for food shopping is something we all have in common, as is 99.9% of our DNA.

The installation, DL90 was designed by British Sculptor Abigail Fallis and will be on display at the site in the cities

Fourth Square

until 2014. 

I wonder if Watson and Crick ever dreamt that one day their painstakingly constructed model of DNA would be translated into an artistic installation rather than a protein.