At first glance, some of Kim Morgan's artwork looks like a fantastical take on a science textbook.

There are large black-and-white photographs of blood cells. An 11-foot long sculpture of a skin flake flutters gently. An enormous sphere, like a beach ball, has its surface printed with an abstract pattern that turns out to be magnified belly button lint.

All were created using images generated by scanning electron microscopy, abbreviated as SEM.

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