This series of sculptures by artist Rogan Brown, laser cut from paper and hand mounted into three-dimensional sculptural compositions, is an attempt to depict the diversity and beauty of the vast colony of organisms that live in and on the human body: bacteria, fungi, pathogens, viruses, etc. “Our growing awareness of the complexity and importance of this colony is perhaps going to change the way we see ourselves as humans, no longer as a separate species but rather a symbiont one,” says Rogan.

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