Ana Daldon, In Collaboration with the University of Trento, Italy

"Coffee Faces”
Department of Physics, 2014
Collage of stereo microscope pictures
 

 “Coffee Faces” is one of the results of my inter- trans disciplinary project called “Coffee Science” realized in collaboration with the Department of Physics at the Trento University (Italy). The aim of the project is the exploration with different techniques (stereo-microscope, SEM (Scanning electronic microscope), Raman and Brillouin techniques, etc. ) of coffee beans, coffee powder and liquid coffee and at a later stage the rearrangement of the outcome for different proposes.

In “Coffee Faces” I selected different coffee beans that I observed and recorded with the stereo microscope. The stereo microscope is designed for low magnification of the sample and analysis of the surface topography. Thanks to this technique it was possible to see in detail the coffee beans surface in their uniqueness and beauty. To the naked eye it is easy to capture that coffee beans are different but without using a magnifying instrument it is barely impossible to perceive in what manner. We usually perceive a lot of “objects” around us in a stylized way forgetting that the beauty is hidden in the details and in an everyday-unexplored diversity, like coffee beans.