The Visible Unseen | A Dialogue with Andrea Chapela, Kelsi Vanada, and Robin Myers
Thu, Oct 20
|Crowdcast
Join us to celebrate Andrea Chapela’s debut essay collection!


Time & Location
Oct 20, 2022, 7:00 PM
Crowdcast
About the Event
In powerful, formally inventive essays, disrupts the purported cultural divide between arts and science. As both a chemist and an award-winning author, Chapela zeros in on the literary metaphors buried in the facts and figures of her scientific observations. Through questioning scientific conundrums that lie beyond the limits of human perception, she winds up putting herself under the microscope as well.The Visible UnseenAbout the Book
While considering the technical definition of glass as a liquid or a solid, Chapela stumbles upon a framework for understanding the in-between-ness of her own life. Turning her focus toward mirrors, she finds metaphors for our cultural obsessions with self-image in the physics and chemistry of reflection. And as she compiles a history of the scientific study of light, she comes to her final conclusion: that the purpose of description--be it scientific or literary--can never be to define reality, only to…