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Sean McDowell: Collectors' Focus Series XII comprises a suite of five small-scale oil paintings on linen driven by his fascination with biology, neuroscience, psychology, microscopy, and geology. Located at the intersection between representation and abstraction, observation and imagination, the artworks were initially inspired by found stock imagery depicting microscopic cells found within carbon-based life forms. Within the artworks, McDowell invites the viewer to explore the complexity of the natural and man-made world, where patterns and shapes repeat in a self-similar manner, …