Art from New York City subway germs? Um, what?? Yes, that’s a thing. Meet the Agar artists. Yeast, bacteria are their ink, and a petri dish is their canvas!
One such artist is Craig Ward who creates art using the unlikeliest of paints — bacteria collected from the seats and handrails of the NYC underground. “Agar art”, named for the gel medium that the bacteria is cultured in, has been created by the scientific community for years, but Ward brings this art form out of the lab and into the subways (and then…back into the lab), showing that beauty can be found even in the ickiest of places.
Check out Ward’s artwork and process in the video below, and let us know what YOU think! Gorgeous or gross? Ingenious or icky? We think it’s all of the above 🙂
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Want to see more? Check out past contest winners on the American Society for Microbiology’s Agar Art Contest page! https://buff.ly/3tKcjmd
