Our liquid fingerprints: Micrograph photos reveal the unique beauty of tears - Quartz
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It turns out that each tear is different—and beautiful in its own right, as you can see in the video above. The fact that we don’t really know what causes this variation—it might be the humidity of the atmosphere, the composition of the tear, or even the source of the pain that drew the tear from the eye in the first place—imbues the project with a sense of mystery and exploration.
In the past year, Mikkers has taken pictures of more than a hundred tears. Friends, family, and even complete strangers have donated their tears at dinner parties and exhibitions, like at TEDx in Amsterdam, where Mikkers was invited to set up a temporary tear collecting booth for people to cry in. When someone contacts Mikkers to ask if they can visit him to have a picture of their own evaporated tear taken, he usually invites them over, makes them cry, and then sends them home with a photograph of their own unique tear.