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Kysa Johnson’s drawings, paintings and installations explore patterns in nature that exist at the extremes of scale, using them as a way to reflect on our place in the physical universe and history. Using the shapes of subatomic decay patterns, maps of the universe or the molecular structure of pollutants or of diseases and cures – in short, microscopic or macroscopic “landscapes” – it depicts a physical reality that is invisible to the naked eye. Often these micro patterns are built up to form compositions that relate to them conceptually.