Artist’s Statement

_{Photograph by Chaz Mottinger/Courtesy of the Artist.}

“I propose a mural that shows a journey through the microscope to explore inside plants and how cellulose nanocrystals can be turned into useful technologies to enrich human and environmental health. (Entering from the northern end), the mural in this rendering represents a viewer and a tulip poplar leaf, moving into its microscopic structure… (the mural comes) back up from the nanoscale into technological applications that ends back up in a child-scale world on the southern end of the mural near Wonderlab. I’m excited about this project as an artist who loves the challenge of communicating big or complicated ideas in an accessible way.”

_{Erin Tobey’s illustration for public mural.}