It’s always nice to see science becoming art, especially when it’s done as nicely as this. Jenn Schmitt has got 96 different printmakers to come up with their own visual interpretations of various elements and put them together into a periodic table (hat tip: Good Morning Silicon Valley). They’ve even tackled the elements for which no obvious picture suggests itself.
You can view the full table in its glory on the Periodic Table Printmaking Project website.
Individual element pictures range from charming and literal (a balloon and the Sun for Helium) to rather more abstract (a rooster for Gallium). It’s also nice to see that artists can also be geeks – the picture for Nickel is a graph of the value of the amount of Nickel in a nickel over six months of 2007.
Images above: hydrogen and helium.
“Knowing how the world around you works makes life so much richer. So the connection of art and science is an important one to me,” Schmitt says in an interview.
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