By Lindsay Smith

Lindsay Smith is graduating this December from the University of Louisville with a BFA in photography. She hopes to start med school in the fall of 2012. She has a 3 month old kitten named Lola who possesses the heart of a lioness and is a fierce huntress of crumpled receipts and dead leaves.

LIFE IN FORMALDEHYDE AND ALAS! POOR YORICK

Science is beautiful. Art is beautiful. There is a schism in our cultural consciousness: the humanities and sciences have been separated, and you have to choose a side and then be intimidated by the other. I want to present science in a way that its visual beauty is apparent, I want to present art to science so the connection can be understood. Neither is above the other- art and science exist on the same plane, they are closer and more intertwined than many realize. They cannot exist independently of each other, no matter how hard they try to make it…