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Nathalie Miebach (Born ) is active/lives in Massachusetts....
Transforming Raw Scientific Data Into Sculpture and Song
For Nathalie Miebach, the stars aligned with this sculpture, inspired by a Hertzsprung-Russell diagram.
Boston-based artist Nathalie Miebach expresses multivariable data through 3D sculptures based in basketry.
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In 2000, Nathalie Miebach was studying both astronomy and basket weaving at the Harvard Extension School in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She was constantly lugging her shears and clamps with her into the room where she’d study projections of stars and nebulas on the wall.
Understanding the science of space could be tricky, she found. “What was so frustrating to me, as a very kinesthetic learner, is that astronomy is so incredibly fascinating, but there’s nothing really tactile about it,” says Miebach.
“You can’t go out and touch a star.”
Soon, something in the budding artist clicked. Her solution? Turn space data into visual art, so that she and other learners like her could grasp it.
Miebach’s final project for her basket weaving class was