A film by Iain Gardner

Navigations is supported by a Wellcome Trust Arts Award and is a collaboration between Animate Projects, Paintings in Hospitals, and Professor Anthony Chalmers and his teams at Beatson West of Scotland Cancer Centre and Beatson Institute for Cancer Research

NAVIGATIONS #1 – #4 is a visual response to the quest investigating cancer treatments by scientists based at the Beatson West of Scotland Cancer Centre, Glasgow

Thin water absorbent paper was cut in scale with laboratory petri dishes and immersed in an inky solution, replicating the three dimensional mesh cancer cells are grown within the laboratory. Once dried out, these layers of stained paper where photographed and animated within a three dimensional digital space.