An arts project that uses everyday items from local people and historical collections and transforms them into stunning images is underway in Portsmouth.
Treasure Island is a citywide public arts initiative organised by artist Seran Kubisa who has been searching for hidden treasures within the city's communities and organisations.
Fibres from personal objects have been collected and some of them chosen for scientific analysis. All the collected fibres, data, photographed items along with their associated memories have then been permanently recorded in the city museums' archives.
So far, objects belonging to the people of Portsmouth as varied as paintings, books, posters and Napoleonic cannonballs have been analysed and transformed into colourful images.
Now the artist is appealing for more people to come forward with their treasured objects to be recorded and transformed into exotic works of art.
"Tiny samples from these items and their associated stories will be used to create visual arts treasures of a normally unseen world,” explained Seran Kubisa. “The natural fluorescence found in older objects can be read as scientific data and this is transformed into stunning images revealing incredible microscopic structures of a normally invisible world.”
