Kaleidoscope

each one of us
broken down
            shattered   shards
scattered
            into nowhere
sometimes sharp
            drawing blood
colorful and irritating
            against skin

gathered together
reflective      solid
transparent       by turns
we bend the sun
            shuffle    spin
reorder    return
            shift design
mandalas in motion
            repeated   resonant

we change
             we are
                          the same
   we                   together

  

Sarah L Hill has lived and worked in four countries, as a teacher, farm laborer, delivery driver, cleaner, and cook. She now works in Cambridge, Massachusetts as a project assistant in educational research.

Art can illuminate even the most elusive and difficult to comprehend ideas. Visual rules and tightly codified visual metaphors help scientists communicate complex ideas mostly amongst themselves, but they can also become barriers to new ideas and insights. Dr. Regina Valluzzi’s images are abstracted and diverged from the typical rules and symbols of scientific illustration and visualization; they provide an accessible window into the world of science for both scientists and non-scientists.