Art in the Lobby
JORDAN CHALFONT Mount Desert Island
Jordan Chalfant lives year-round on Mount Desert Island. She is most at home in places where science and art overlap. Pressing seaweed onto paper is a common way of preserving scientific specimens, but it is also an art form. Jordan's goal is to capture the fluid movement of seaweed as it behaves in the ocean and to accentuate the myriad shapes, colors, translucencies, and textures found in this diverse group. As an ecologist at Maine Natural History Observatory, she is working on a photographic field guide to the seaweeds of Maine.