Monday, 24 March 2014

Microbes In The Home

According to health care experts, infectious diseases caused by microbes are responsible for more deaths worldwide than any other single cause. Since microbes are much better at adapting to new environments than people it's no surprise that our homes are full of them. Microbes have existed on earth for billions of years and a lot of forms of microbes have developed to resist the attack of vaccine and medicines. Our homes hold a lot of perfect breeding spots for microbes. I looked on the website http://www.healthline.com/health-slideshow/germy-places and read up on the most common places that harvest germs in the home, the list goes as follows:

Dish towels,
Sponges,
Kitchen Tap,
Light Switches,
Makeup Bag,
Wet Unattended Laundry,
Remote Control,
Computer Keyboard,
Mobile Phone,
Toilet Seat.
Tooth Brush.

I'm going to turn my findings into a visual by creatively re-creating 'germs' and spreading them onto these objects then simply taking a still life image of the set up. I've always been interested in UV lighting and glow sticks so I'll experiment with using the liquid form inside a glow stick or UV paint as a representation of the germs.

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