Patrice Corneli in her Salt Lake City studio, Photo by Bill Fulton
“Sometimes people associate science with left-brain activity. Not so, says Patrice Corneli, who is both a scientist and an artist, and asserts that good science needs creativity. “The really creative scientists have to be right-brained – you’ve got to think outside of the box and not assume that you know everything. It’s the same with art.” Corneli has always practiced both biology and art, and particularly when she is working with the mathematical details in biology, she gets into what she calls “the altered state” that she feels when making art. It’s a completely focused, serene-yet-active experience.”
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