The Dutch microbiologist Antonie van Leeuwenhoek was among the first to render what is invisible to the naked eye. From slides enclosing drops of pond water, he drew the protozoan life forms he saw through his microscope, naming them ‘animalcules’. The artist sees van Leeuwenhoek’s work as among the first of countless human intrusions into the privacy of other animals ever since. She prefers to imagine and represent the unseen infinitesimal on the sea bed at depths we shall not plumb. Deep Sea Critter (2026