Unique print. Sonia Mehra Chawla is a visual artist and researcher based in New Delhi, India. Mehra Chawla has an interdisciplinary practice as an artist, photographer and researcher. She works at the intersection of art, science and technology, and her artistic practice explores notions of selfhood, nature, ecology, sustainability, and conservation.
Vital To Life: Drifters and Wanderers is a series of detailed and meticulously produced laser cuts and engravings that explore the hidden, mysterious and wondrous world of microorganisms (diatoms) in the world’s oceans and water bodies. The work makes the invisible visible, as we marvel at the exquisite beauty and vitality of their siliceous structures, frustules (cell walls) and formations.