Drawing on aesthetics of biology and physics illustrations of plant epidermal cross sections and light simulations, this series of animated graphic diagrams conceptualizes the "iridescent operation" as a boundary object that creates navigational axes for moving across binary thresholds and conflicting temporalities.

My current research focuses on iridescence as a structurally occurring phenomenon and survival mechanism in plants where color is not produced from pigmentation, and instead from nanoscale geometries found under the skin that interact with light, called photonic crystals. Recent scientific studies reveal that iridescence in certain plant species contributes to enhanced photosynthetic efficiency, suggesting potential for future biomimetic solar energy technologies and enhanced light harvesting in bioengineered plants.

This serves as the speculative departure for the iridescent operation. Appropriating the phenomenon's optical logic, where conventional iridescence allures, deceives, and distracts, the iridescent operation moves through seduction to inhabit an intracellular terrain that illuminates the underlying structures of its making. Exploring a permeable exchange across axes, the operation seeks to reveal its own speculative relation to capital, energy, imaging, and networked infrastructures.