Sensual Data

Mapping the elements of phosphate and nitrite + nitrate presented a new challenge. These nutrients had to be interwoven, each with distinct colors and textures, to reveal their curves rise and fall through the year, while being strikingly similar for much of winter. An abundance of playfully placed plankton, including some that are hand-drawn, reminds the viewer of the living organisms inhabiting this marine environment. ↩  Images from Data

In this image we see the fluctuation in how many plankton are in the water throughout the year. The image includes an overlay of the data graph with temperature and the concentration of the essential nutrient silicate to add another dimension, and it includes composites of photographs of plankton taken with a scanning electron microscope. Abundances changes substantially through the year, and in the final weeks the quantity of plankton was so great that the number continues above and beyond the graph. . ↩  Images from Data