PATRICK DESGRAUPES
From Grape to Stars

These photographs represent tanks of wine in fermentation, seen from above.
“From grape to Stars” is an ongoing Project. It was born out of the desire to show the process of transformation, which is inherent to the universe. In this case it is the transformation of the grape into wine. This process started around 5000 years ago.
My wish, is to highlight a chemical operation that the majority of the public never sees, in order to reveal its cosmic dimension.
Scientists have shown that the molecular diversity of a wine makes it possible to trace the evolution of its life and to read a "memory" of men. Furthermore, the slow evolution of the chemical particles of a wine inside a bottle is, on a smaller scale, similar to the evolution of microorganisms in the universe. So they use wine as a model to study the cosmos. Quoting a poet Richard Feynman, Nobel Prize and major physicist in Quantum mechanics, wrote "The whole universe is in a glass of wine ...»

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