Q: but does it float?

A: If you've come across that title before you probably know the fascinating website butdoesitfloat.com. I found the following sources of inspiration there catergorise under Macro/Micro which I decided to share with you here!

 In network theory, a node’s relationship to other networks is more important than its own uniqueness. Similarly, today we situate ourselves less as individuals and more as the product of multiple networks

Generative artworks by Keith Peters
Title: Kazys Varnelis

I’m trying to get close to the language of thought. It’s hard to put into words what the mind does, but drawing can map those processes better than anything but music. It’s so agile. It’s like a cloth you put over some complex object and it takes on the shape of the object exactly

Drawings and title by Robert Horvitz

A human being is never dependent on his own experience alone for his information

Drawings by Simon Evans

You will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return

Paintings by Mark Warren Jacques

“Mark Bradford is an artist who incorporates ephemera from urban environments into mixed-media works on canvas that are rich in texture and visual complexity. Though he has experimented throughout his career with many different artistic media, including public art, installations, and video, his signature and 
best-known work takes the form of massively scaled, abstract collages that he assembles out of signage and other materials collected, most frequently, from his own neighborhood in South Central Los Angeles.”

























Cornelia Hesse-Honegger, scientific illustrator and science artist, was born in 1944 in Zurich, Switzerland. For 25 years she worked as a scientific illustrator for the scientific department of the Natural History Museum at the University of Zurich. Since the catastrophe of Chernobyl in 1986, she has collected, studied and painted morphologically disturbed insects, which she finds in the fallout areas of Chernobyl as well as near nuclear installations.



























Separated from the familiar, confronted with the unfamiliar, and reflexed only by the brain’s mechanical feedback
katrin moller painter

























We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it’s forever
Marcus Mrugalla

































Isolated human particles floating weightlessly through a magnetic field of fabricated pleasure, occasionally colliding


Oskar Fischinger paintings form the 1960's

Oskar Fischinger (22 June 1900, Gelnhausen, Germany — 31 January 1967, Los Angeles) was an abstract animator, filmmaker, and painter. His animated films that were partly influenced by the poetic abstraction of Kandinsky’s paintings were among the first to mix high art and mass culture.

More info on Oskar Fischinger: http://www.centerforvisualmusic.org/Fischinger

Geometry does not teach us to draw these lines, but requires them to be drawn











Bridget Louise Riley

























It is a matter of perfect indifference where a thing originated; the only question is: “Is it true in and for itself?”
Vince Contarino























There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of the spheres
Mona Hatoum
























Then again, it’s the same old story









Kellyanne Burns


Morphogenesis is the biological process that causes an organism to develop its shape:
Via Xavier Hufkens























As I approach, it bestirs itself and moves deeper into the thorny swamp of dissent
Joel Shapiro























Outside is pure energy and colorless substance, all of the rest happens through the mechanism of our senses. Our eyes see just a small fraction of the light in the world. It is a trick to make a colored world, which does not exist outside of human beings
Phillip Otto Runge

























Hilma f Klint : The hierarchical way we pictured the world no longer seemed adequate or accurate
Through her work with the group 'the Five' af Klint created experimental automatic drawing as early as 1896, leading her towards an inventive geometric visual language capable of conceptualising invisible forces both of the inner and outer worlds. Quite apart from their diagrammatic purpose the paintings have a freshness and a modern aesthetic of tentative line and hastily captured image: a segmented circle, a helix bisected and divided into a spectrum of lightly painted colours. She continued prolifically to add to the body of work amounting to over 1000 pieces until 1941. She requested that it should not be shown until 20 years after the end of her life.—Wikipedia

We are all the descendants of a tiny cell of primordial protoplasm washed up on an empty beach three and a half billion years ago

Paul Henry Ramirez painting

Susan Aldworth (1955) works in etching, digital print, film and installation. Her current practice is inspired by medical science, focusing on the human brain and issues of personal identity.

We were making sand castles. Now we swim in the sea that swept them away

Ryan Browning

And the last words are from Travis Stearns. All images were found at But does it float with other images and links for each artist ( and many more)