SU master’s student Anshul Roy combined biology and art to create his photo gallery on display in Bird Library.
Story and Photos by Christopher Scarglato
Anshul Roy bled for his art — literally. While creating work for his bio-art class last spring, the Syracuse University master’s student pricked his finger, put the blood sample on a test slide, and snapped a picture of it using a microscope.
The image is now one of 12 used in his collection, “A Self-Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.” Inspired by bio-art, a type of artform that blends both art and biology together, Roy utilized different forms of self-portraits to capture himself on both macroscopic and microscopic levels. The photography series will hang in Bird Library’s Biblio Gallery until Oct. 14 2022.