Trying some ideas for a new project

When you look at the natural world, and particularly when you look at it under a microscope, it starts to look very abstract.

This image, for example, isn't a piece of contemporary art, it's a cross section of bone seen under a microscope.

Image from Wellcome.ac.uk

This is the same thing at an even greater magnification.  These round structures with the little holes in the middle are called osteons, which are essentially the building blocks of bone.

Image from Psmicrographs.co.uk.

I've been playing around with three little panels showing cross sections of a femur at progressively greater levels of magnification.

Panel number one is a cross section showing the compact bone around the outside, and the spongy bone in the center of the femur where the marrow sits.  This piece is made from paper and plaster.

The next one is all paper, and shows the osteons in the compact bone, like that second picture I showed in this post.  It's very much a work in progress at this stage, but hopefully you can get some idea of what it will be like.

I'll talk about the third panel another time, because so far I don't really have anything there to talk about.  What I'd like to achieve is something that captures the abstract look of bone structure under a microscope - something that's all about colour and shape.