CELLS-N-CELLS: When the Systems Around Us Become Part of Us
There is something unsettling about the word cell . We hear it in biology and think of the microscopic structures that make life possible. We hear it in prison and think of confinement. Same word. Two very different realities. CELLS-N-CELLS lives in that tension. The visual begins with a person standing behind prison bars, but the story quickly becomes larger than physical incarceration. Inside the body, another world is unfolding: DNA, blood, organs, energy, cells, and a glowing biological network connecting everything together. Above it all is the question: “Is this the ‘biology’ of our society, or is our society affecting our ‘biology’?” That question is the heart of the piece. The Cell Within the Cell Biology teaches us that cells don't exist in isolation. Cells form tissue. Tissue forms organs. Organs contribute to systems. The individual parts become something larger. Society works in much the same way. Individuals become families. Families bec...
