‘Visualising the invisible’ – a project given that was open for interpretation. At the beginning I struggled with inspiration and how to get the art flowing, even Pinterest didn’t help. However, I went to an exhibition in Paris over the Christmas holiday, and the painting ‘Le retour du bapteme d’apres le Nain’ by Picasso caught my eye. The juxtaposition between human shapes and pointillism within the piece is what started off the ideas for my project. The variety of shapes, colour and texture reminded me of the bacteria I had grown prior to going to this exhibition. I had swabbed different surfaces and swiped the cotton bud across the surface area of an agar Petri dish, that resulted in a breeding ground for bacteria. I swabbed a keyboard, a phone, my dog, a mouth and the loo. I decided that I wanted to use the outcome and base it into paintings. I mainly focused on the keyboard as the bacteria from there seemed to thrive in the Petri dishes and a large range of textures and colours seemed to form. I wanted to remind people of what is actually around us, therefore I produced abstract paintings based of the Petri dishes in the shape of keyboards. 
This was one of the more abstract pieces, I also took a rubbing of a keyboard as I wanted to create another version of the piece to present the keyboard in a more obvious way. It also points of more obviously the idea of what lies beneath the keyboard and plays with the idea of reminding the audience of the bacteria around us.
I also started to look at the transference of bacteria and how bacteriologists protect themselves from contamination. I looked at their protective wear such as suits, gloves and the face masks that they use. The face mask really stood out to me. Initially I was going to include these into paintings, however, upon looking at it closer I noticed all the textures within it. I came across embossing and print making and thought that this would work well with my project, I liked the idea of the transference between face mask to paper, to ink as I was looking into the transference of bacteria. 
Jack Hofman- https://www.instagram.com/justinhofman/
The photos that Hofman takes are truly powerful in my opinion. I think that they really communicate the problem of plastic pollution to his audience. One photo that particularly stands out to me is ‘Sewage Surfer’, it gained a vast amount of attention all around the world.
Agnes Kindt 