SCAF Emerging Artists 2022 Exhibition Catalogue
Fateful Encounter The word ‘synergy’ comes from the Greek, meaning ‘working together’ and was first used in 1647. It is used more generally to refer to ‘the whole being greater than the sum of its parts’ In the 1990s, it was a management buzzword, popularised by Steven Covey in ‘The 7 habits of highly effective people’ and used to justify downsizing in business [and local government] by doing more with less: a mutually advantageous conjunction or compatibility of distinct business participants or elements such as resources or efforts. Whilst researching the subject, she came across examples in other fields: • the interaction or cooperation of two or more organisations, substances, or other agents to produce a combined effect greater than the sum of their separate effects. • medicines and medical treatments that co-operate with bodily functions or organs to improve health and mental facilities [1847]. • the human will, working together with Divine Grace in the work of regeneration. • a greater effect obtained by combining two or more organisms or components together to produce a result equally beneficial to all. www.instagram.com/Teddico4 Scott Creative Arts Foundation
Considering the ways in which these concepts might be portrayed creatively as attractive artworks, she came across ‘the Fateful Encounter hypothesis. This argues that around two billion years ago a unique event caused a symbiotic relationship so favourable, that the whole of our known kingdoms of life could have resulted from it. The hypothesis was used to refer to a chance event that might have led to the ‘start of evolution’: the synergy of two single cells coming together by chance. They merged, and instead of dying, formed a kind of hybrid cell, which survived and proliferated. In technical terms, a single mitochondrion was taken up by a single ancient bacterial cell that then divided to give each daughter cell a mitochondrion of its own. “All sophisticated life on the planet Earth may owe its existence to one freakish event.” If this hypothesis is true, and there are those who doubt it, then all eukaryotes—every flower and fungus, spider and sparrow, man and woman—descended from a sudden and breathtakingly improbable synergy between two microbes. She found various scientific reports on this theory, and many illustrations showing how the event could have happened. Whilst not fully understanding the scientific arguments relating to the hypothesis, there were some fascinating diagrams and photographs. These provided the inspiration for my submission - Teddi wanted to portray [even if the hypothesis was not eventually accepted by the scientific world] the potential beauty and drama of the event. Emerging Artist 2022 Award www.scafemergingartist.co.uk
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Considering the ways in which these concepts might be<br />
portrayed creatively as attractive artworks, she came across<br />
‘the Fateful Encounter hypothesis. This argues that around two<br />
billion years ago a unique event caused a symbiotic relationship<br />
so favourable, that the whole of our known kingdoms of life<br />
could have resulted from it. The hypothesis was used to refer<br />
to a chance event that might have led to the ‘start of evolution’:<br />
the synergy of two single cells coming together by chance.<br />
They merged, and instead of dying, formed a kind of hybrid cell,<br />
which survived and proliferated. In technical terms, a single<br />
mitochondrion was taken up by a single ancient bacterial cell<br />
that then divided to give each daughter cell a mitochondrion<br />
of its own.<br />
“All sophisticated life on the planet Earth may owe its existence<br />
to one freakish event.”<br />
If this hypothesis is true, and there are those who doubt it, then<br />
all eukaryotes—every flower and fungus, spider and sparrow,<br />
man and woman—descended from a sudden and breathtakingly<br />
improbable synergy between two microbes.<br />
She found various scientific reports on this theory, and many<br />
illustrations showing how the event could have happened.<br />
Whilst not fully understanding the scientific arguments relating<br />
to the hypothesis, there were some fascinating diagrams and<br />
photographs. These provided the inspiration for my submission<br />
- Teddi wanted to portray [even if the hypothesis was not<br />
eventually accepted by the scientific world] the potential beauty<br />
and drama of the event.<br />
<strong>Emerging</strong> Artist <strong>2022</strong> Award<br />
www.scafemergingartist.co.uk
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