“AstraZeneca vaccine.” All images © Luke Jerram, shared with permission
Bristol-based artist () continues to add delicate specimens to his collection. The ongoing project is a collaboration with scientists at the University of Bristol, who aid Jerram in scaling three-dimensional renderings of avian flu, papillomavirus, the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, and other tiny organisms into sculptures approximately one million times their actual size. Transparent and impeccably detailed, the models are designed to showcase the structures of each microbe without distorting the viewer’s perception with non-existent colors, which are often used to distinguish various parts in illustrated renderings.
Jerram documents the process behind his swine flu sculpture in below, which begins with two artists hand-blowing the larger structure. The team then shapes hundreds of individual proteins that will later be fused to the virus’s exterior. Find more of the scientifically minded project on , and follow Jerram’s latest works on .
“Papillomavirus”
“Avian Flu 2012”
“EV1 (Hand, Foot, and Mouth Disease)”
Detail of “AstraZeneca vaccine”
“Giardia”
“Ameoba”
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