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When a drop of alcohol is placed on a slide in an airtight container and dried up to four weeks, then viewed under a polarized light microscope, and magnified up to a 1,000 times, you get the resulting images below. A type of psychedelic art you can say, or micrographs that show the crystallized carbohydrates of alcoholic drinks that have essentially turned to sugar and glucose. These scientific creations are carefully rendered out by BevShots an American firm that sells custom prints of over 50 different types of drinks. Who would have thought alcohol would look so good, but I wouldn’t go so far as to call them products of modern art (indicated so on their website). But they would easily fit into the book Heaven & Earth: Unseen by the Naked Eye, an awe-inspiring exploration of our world, from the micro to the macro displayed in ascending order of size and distance – from the smallest particle on the earth’s surface to gigantic galaxies thousands of light years away.

Vodka

English Oatmeal Stout

Sake

Champagne

Gin

Whiskey

Tequila

images via BevShots