I made this piece as I was writing up my PhD thesis, trying to understand how to bring together making art with what I now understood of cell biology. Rather than copying pictures of cells, I tried to assemble my own. Cells can be thought of as a number of compartments - called organelles - each with a specific function. I think of these like rooms of a house or elements of a circuit board.

In Compartmentalisation (2012), I juxtaposed a drawing from a photograph of a settlement of the Dogon people, who live in the central plateau region of Mali, with plans of villages in Chad and Cameroon, with a drawing of a circuit board.