23rd Annual Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest Artistic
"Khēmia of Ma’at"
Fifty pigmented, synthetic organisms hover in deliberate suspension. Not flowers. Not symbols. Not static. They are fragments of possible futures — mutational, luminous, and molecular. Composed of tinted polymethyl methacrylate (acrylic glass) — each form evokes not the mimicry of nature, but its speculative evolution. Installed in the Chemistry Auditorium of Kharkiv’s venerable university, amid equations once chalked and atoms once split, Khēmia of Ma’at proposes a quiet synthesis between matter and morality, between the physical and the ethical.
Photo Detail
| Date Taken: | 05.2025 |
| Date Uploaded: | 11.2025 |
| Photo Location: | Kharkiv, Ukraine |
| Copyright: | © Aljoscha Aljoscha |