Despite common misconceptions, I find that science and art go hand in hand. Truthfully, the more scientists I meet, the more artists I seem to meet. In my lab alone, we have a concert pianist, a painter, an amazing violinist, and even a student who is doing her PhD in an artistic laboratory, which is dedicated to the research, learning, critique and hands-on engagement with the life sciences. My husband is a software engineer, but is also an amazing singer and songwriter….
There is something so methodical and mathematical about art…and something that doesn’t survive without big, creative thinking in the sciences.
I personally find that I’m better at my science when I have some form of artistic expression to act as a counterbalance. I was a theatre minor as an undergraduate and performed in musicals all throughout my PhD. I took up fashion design and dressmaking during my first post doc and now my artistic interests have morphed into this blog. Since I’ve started blogging, it’s almost as if my artistic energies have been channeled in some way that makes me refreshed and ready for the scientific side of me to excel.
When I spotted this perfect drop waisted dress, with its vintage novelty print whimsical painters and their easels and mini tic tac toe boards, I knew it would be the perfect dress to sum up the different sides to me. And as I head off to the lab today, it reminds me that the artist in me is never too far behind….
xoxo
Outfit Details:
Dress: Sweet Bee Finds (similar here, here & here)
Handbag: Mochi Beaucoup (similar here & here)
Shoes: ASOS (similar here & here)
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