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Laurie says:

I think Josie Lewis’s “Petrified Rainbow” photographs are quite stunning. (Lots more images on her site.) I spent a lot of time in the Bacteriology Lab at Harlem Hospital when I was in high school. There is something especially charming about making art in the same petri dishes I grew bacteria in. Lewis’s work also has a quality of “found art” that I really like.

The quotes are from Beth Elderkin at gizmodo.
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The series “Petrified Rainbow” from artist Josie Lewis uses resin and chemicals to create strange and colorful growths inside petri dishes. Lewis told io9 that every single piece is a gamble: She basically throws some ink and resin onto a dish, seals it up, flips it over, and then waits to see the result.
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“I can’t actually see what’s happening while making them. I only get to see the results 12 hours later when the cure is complete and I pull the discs out of the molds,” Lewis said. “I call them petri supernova because I was using round molds and they looked a lot like science petri dish with weird fungi growing in them. Also, [it’s] what I imagine the Big Bang looked like.”
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When asked what her images evoke, Lewis they remind her of “the surface of alien planets and mermaid skin,” and that they seem to combine biology and futurism.