It’s a weird feeling, when your brain knows something to be true, but you can’t bring yourself to fully believe it (see also: the Abbatars at ABBA Voyage). This is what’s happening when I look at today’s cover of the Standard. It looks like a meticulous illustration or digital invention; I know perfectly well that it’s a near-microscopic, photographic image of a splodge of actual paint. I just… can’t quite get my head around it.
“In real life it’s probably two centimetres square, something like that,” says Rob Carter, one half of the artist duo Rob & Nick Carter with his wife, known otherwise as Nicky. “But with the advent of super high-powered digital cameras — this is a 150 megapixel camera — we can capture all that detail from a tiny little paint blob and blow it up to a massive scale.”
