Welcome

I think that we are all born artists and scientists. How we are stripped of our innate wonderment and expressiveness is perhaps the tragic nature of society. Any society. Might this define humanity?

For Scientist Sam, art was reduced to helping in practical ways - like drawing diagrams, sketching organisms, and detailing body parts. Today, as an imperfect man seeking Truth and the Meaning of Life, art has taken on new significance.

My science website - www.bowserlab.org - is professionally managed and contains more than you’d ever want to know about the workings of a research laboratory. In contrast, this site deals with the ways that art and science merge; ways that express more personal matters like friendship, family, and daily experiences that fuel the human spirit.

I’m tired of the negativity projected in the mass media and mirrored in modern art. Our world is filled with wonderful sights, sounds, and smells; our minds glitter with perceptions, feelings, and profound insights. Granted, our existence is also punctuated by hardship, misconception, cruelty, and trickery. One way to lead a full, productive life is to express the beautiful and interesting, in the dim light of the ugly punctuation, to others.

I firmly believe that science and rational thought provide ways to reveal beauty and to define those punctuation marks. Art is a perfect medium for communicating those “scientific” findings. That’s part of what I’m trying to do here.

Clockwise: Diving beneath 18-ft ice cover in Antarctica; Goofing around with my nephew Jeremy; Raising the flag on the roof of Explorers Cove field camp with artist friend Claire Beynon; a Beynon pastel-like sunset across McMurdo Sound.

Welcome to the world of rational art and irrational science