Fleeting beauty of body art

By Margaret Maccoll

Science and art collided at Cooroy over the weekend when body artist Fran Catford drew inspiration from Einstein’s theory of relativity for her winning air brush art on model Alicia at the Australian Body Art Festival.

Body artists explored time travel in a myriad of ways through art and clothing at the festival held over the weekend and enjoyed by many.

Fran Catford used a mix of images to relay her message of technology through the ages from Einstein’s portrait and images from ancient Egypt to depictions of black holes and scenes of futuristic cities.

Fran said the images of space and black holes added a fourth dimension to her three dimensional art as it told a story of the need for the wise…