This year, our Artist-in-Residence, Saskia Baden, completed her final project with us—an
evocative series of silver gelatin prints created in the darkroom using scientific images from
UCLA students and fellows as her raw materials. These striking works of art now fill the hall
outside the Center for Reproductive Science, Health and Education’s headquarters, where we
hope they inspire reflection and curiosity. Created as a way of finding connection and fostering
dialogue with the research taking place at the Center, the project uses microscopic stem cell
images produced by students to generate abstracted photographs. Through this process, a
compelling translation occurs—one that allows scientific information to be interpreted as art,
and art to be read as scientific.
