When science is art and art is science

When I rocked up to a school chemistry class my teacher would sigh. I was good at English and history, art and music. But I was terrible at science. Physics was within touching distance if I really stretched. But chemistry? However hard I tried, I couldn’t work it out. Physics interacted with the world I knew, but chemistry, that was pure abstraction to me. Wrapping my brain cells around atoms and molecules gave me a…