Carol Flaitz applies her artistic sensibilities to microscopic images of silicon chips, creating two dimensional designs out of mixed media.   With the focused lens of a painter, she finds grandeur in the microscopic infrastructure that drives the 21^st Century and delivers a striking metaphor for the power of technology in human society.

The original photographs are taken by Dr. Phil Flaitz, a senior engineer who works in material science and patent research with IBM.  For Carol, the photographs are miniature landscapes rendered at one billionth of a meter and represent nothing less than a new visual frontier. 

Carol abstracts the nano-photography into two-dimensional pencil designs on wood, then submerges it beneath layers of color, texture and glazes until a compelling landscape is born.  This sort of surface sculpting puts Carol's background in ceramics to full use and produces rich, sculptural work.            

Carol's artistic career began at the age of thirteen under the instruction of Katherine Nelson, a student of Hans Hoffman.  She received her Bachelors of Fine Arts from the prestigious College of Ceramics at Alfred University in Alfred, NY, then went on to receiver her Masters in Fine Art from the South Glamorgan Institute of Higher Learning in Cardiff, Great Britain.  Carol has shown her art work at galleries across the Hudson Valley Region, in New York City, and internationally.