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Pollen Series #1: Urtica diocia - Stinging Nettle (mander.xyz)

Tender-handed, stroke a nettle,...

When you stare into the abyss, the abyss stares back at you. (mander.xyz)

Portrait of a Tortoise Beetle (mander.xyz)

Not sure of the exact species, possibly Cassida japana.

Keeping this little guy humid! (mander.xyz)

Found this little jar at a Wilko in town for £6. Made a perfect little greenhouse for a calathea I saved from going in the bin at a nursery. It’s much happier with the higher humidity.

Crocheted Coral Reef pt. 2 (mander.xyz)

This project, started by Margaret Wertheim and Christine Wertheim, has “colonized” to many other locations, and has been executed by many more people, around the world! For more information on the scientific, eco-political, and artistic merits of this work, please visit the link included....

The ADHD Burnout Cycle (mander.xyz)

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Ringed Ice Giant Over Volcano (mander.xyz)

I made a video for this place, with time sped up fast enough for its progression to be easily seen, and added some music to it. I need to see if I can find that, and if I do I will upload it here!...

PTSD: Scientist Edition (mander.xyz)

I call it experimenting. (mander.xyz)

Random WiP detail by Loren Hall (mander.xyz)

This is from a salvage operation to scavenge what was left, after bad gesso cracked and fell away from the masonite. You can fairly easily make out the jagged edge created when the pieces fell away, leaving scant traces behind, in the middle-right of the image, and other areas as well....

"A Natural Tension" - 2022 (mander.xyz)

I rendered this image from a GAN model trained from images of my own natural process painting work. Since the process renders organic abstractions with fractal imagery, there is a large amount of inherent zoom possible for obtaining details without losing continuity, and that zoom is only really limited by the dimensions of the...

Earth Systems 101: What do we know and how do we know it? (mander.xyz)

Higher resolution: virtualfieldwork.org/…/BigRainbowChart09.2011.pdf...

"Oxalic Acid Crystals During Precipitation" - James Dvorak 1975 (mander.xyz)

This was the 1st place winner from the very first Nikon Small World Photomicrography competition, in 1975! It was made by transmitting polarized light with a Berek quartz wedge....