“I’m collecting puzzle pieces to put together an accurate perspective of the world that I’m in and the body that I’m in.”

Sienna Cenere makes detailed pictures out of data. She draws people, animals, plants, plate tectonics and more using hand-drawn numbers and equations in a version of pointillism. A year of research may go into one piece, along with 50 hours making tiny letters and numbers that, seen from a distance, cohere into evocative artworks.

In this interview she shows us around her impressive printmaking studio, where she goes down many a research rabbit hole, and she demonstrates the meticulous craft of numberism.