Santa Fina

stratg — Tue, 02 Oct 2018 19:47:24 +0000

Una D’Elia

Pietro Torrigiani, a competitor of Michelangelo, carved this bust of a saint out of marble and then painted it so that blood seems to run in this determined young girl's veins. This lively piece, made over five hundred years ago, is an example of the kind of naturalistic sculptures that have been little studied, as most scholars focus on monochrome "high art" statuary. The sculptures I am studying were not confined to museums, but were a part of the social lives of Italian men and women, who talked to, touched, kissed, worshipped, attacked, and dressed sometimes uncannily realistic coloured sculptures.

Location of photograph:

Musei Civici, San Gimignano, Italy

Prize name:

Second prize

Submission Year:

2015-16

Window on a Window to the Universe

stratg — Mon, 01 Oct 2018 20:32:43 +0000

Mark Chen

An underwater camera mounted in the SNO+ (Sudbury Neutrino Observatory) neutrino detector captures a snapshot image when the 12-metre diameter acrylic sphere is 85% full. Viewed from below, ropes are seen crisscrossing the top of the sphere extending down (foreground), and each of the shiny cells that are visible is a 20-cm diameter super-sensitive light detector. The water-air interface inside and outside the acrylic spherical tank creates visual distortions as light refracts at the optical boundary. Once full, the upgraded detector turns on in Fall 2016, ten years after the original SNO detector completed its Nobel-prize winning studies.

Location of photograph:

SNOLAB, Sudbury, Ontario

Prize name:

Second prize

Submission Year:

2016-17