by Erich Füllgrabe
The Latin periodic system of typographic elements is part of my general approach in which I try out new definitions of understanding both in art and science by drawing relations between their languages. In so doing, it is not my intention to illustrate scientific knowledge or to replace well-known theories with private explanations, but to understand understanding.
Chemistry is the science of elements and material transmutations. By mixing, assembling, analyzing, and synthesizing, chemists investigate the structures of matter and enlarge both our understanding and the ability to create something new. Provided that art is a way of creating and understanding too - and that artists similarly proceed by mixing, assembling, analyzing, and synthesizing - we may ask similar questions about visibility and existence in both fields.
In art, individual experience has to be related to general experience and to be transmuted into visual "images". If art and chemistry are domains of transmutation and of dealing with raw materials, we may address those questions by similar approaches in both fields. The analogy between chemistry and art does of course not eliminate their differences. However, it might be useful to analyze similarities between the two approaches to understanding. Both chemists and artists must translate their individual experiences and experiments into visual presentations of results that considerably differ from their starting points. Both need to consider that visualizations are never faithful copies of their experiences but at best adequate summaries. In addition, if understanding should reach beyond the individual scientist or artist, both must present their results in a way comprehensible for others and thus place them into a social context.
Finally, in both domains visualization is not only a means of illustration but also a creative part of the act of understanding. Such as experiments can test the validity of theories, creating visualization can be used to test the degree of understanding of the corresponding results. I am convinced that connecting methods from science with procedures from non-scientific domains generates mutually beneficial impulses - not only to find new visualizations but also to reflect on visualization and the relation between knowledge, images, and reality.
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