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minouette

@minouette@spore.social

Artist, printmaker and marine geophysicist.
Settler in Tkaronto (she/her)

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minouette, to random
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I made a pattern of my linocut porcelain crab for #InsertAnInvert2024! Porcelain crabs, Neopetrolisthes maculatus are decapod crustaceans in the family Porcellanidae, which resemble true crabs but are in fact closer related to squat lobsters. These are 1 of at least 5 groups of decapod crustaceans which have evolved to be more crab-shaped in a process known as carsinisation. Find this on Spoonflower minouette shop

#crab #porcelainCrab #squatLobster #sciArt #linocut #printmaking #invertebrates

minouette, to random
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A porcelain crab for ! Looks like a crab, has crab in its name…is it a crab? Nope. False crab. Porcelain crabs, Neopetrolisthes maculatus are decapod crustaceans in the family Porcellanidae, which resemble true crabs but are in fact closer related to squat lobsters. They have flattened bodies as an adaptation for living in rock crevices. 🧵1/2

minouette, to Geology
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Happy birthday to Danish Inge Lehmann (1888 – 1993) who demonstrated that the Earth's core is not a single molten sphere, but contained an inner solid core, in ‘36. She was a pioneer , a brilliant seismologist & lived to be 105.⁠
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As she first postulated, the has roughly 3 equal concentric sections: mantle, liquid outer core & solid inner core. 🧵1/n

minouette, to Nursing
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Happy birthday to founder of modern nursing, social reformer, statistician, data visualization innovator & writer Florence Nightingale (1820 – 1910)!⁠
Nightingale earned the nickname "The Lady with the Lamp" during the Crimean War, from a phrase used by The Times, describing her as a “ministering angel” making her solitary rounds of the hospital at night with “a little lamp in her hand”. 🧵1/n
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The image was immortalized by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's 1857 poem Santa Filomena.⁠
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Behind Nightingale is her ‘Diagram of Causes of Mortality in the Army in the East’ plotted as a polar area diagram – though not her own statistical & data visualization innovation, sometimes called a Nightingale Rose Diagram. It illustrates causes of death in the military hospital she managed during the Crimean War. April 1855 to March 1856 is shown on the left and April 1854 to March 1855 to the right. 🧵2/

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When she researched the causes of mortality, looking back at the data, she saw clearly that the lack of hygiene was a far greater risk to soldiers’ lives than being wounded. This "Diagram of the causes of mortality in the army in the East" was published in Notes on Matters Affecting the Health, Efficiency, and Hospital Administration of the British Army and sent to Queen Victoria in 1858.⁠
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This experience influenced her later career and she campaigned for sanitary living conditions, 🧵3/

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knowing how dangerous unsanitary conditions can be to survival. She also made extensive use of similar polar area diagrams on the nature and magnitude of the conditions of medical care in the Crimean War, or sanitation conditions of the British army in rural India, to make such statistics transparent to Members of Parliament and civil servants who would have been unlikely to read or understand traditional statistical reports. ⁠
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In 1859, Nightingale was elected the first female member of the Royal Statistical Society. She later became an honorary member of the American Statistical Association.⁠

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Happy birthday to Maryam Mirzakhani (1977-2017)! The Fields Medal, one of the most prestigious math awards, is awarded to mathematicians < 40. In 2014, she became 1st woman to win. Her research included Teichmüller theory, hyperbolic geometry, ergodic theory, & symplectic geometry, & Fields committee cited her work in "the dynamics & geometry of Riemann surfaces and their moduli spaces".⁠
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minouette, to Astronomy
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Happy birthday to Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (1900-1979), trailblazer for women in who discovered that hydrogen and helium are the most common elements in the universe.⁠
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Born England, she won a scholarship to Newnham College Cambridge in 1919 where she heard a lecture which changed her life. She wrote, “My world had been so shaken that I experienced something very like a nervous breakdown.” 🧵

minouette, to random
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If any of you are in Asheville, NC you can find some of my prints at “Birds Bees Bears Blue Ridge Mountains” at Asheville Print Studio & Gallery! Reception: Saturday, May 11 from 4 to 7.

There’s all sorts of wonderful printmakers in the show and I’m too far away but I hope you have a chance to go

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I’ve taken my frog crab (Ranina ranina) linocut and made a repeat pattern. You can find it in the minouette Spoonflower shop, so you can get frog crab fabric, wallpaper and more. Plus I entered it in today’s challenge: Crustacean Core!

Vote frog crab 🦀

https://www.spoonflower.com/profiles/minouette?sub_action=designs

#linocut #printmaking #frogCrab #patternDesign #crustacean #sciArt #spoonflower #insertAnInvert2024

Pattern made from a random smattering of images of my frog crab on a pink background to create a repeat pattern. Many copies of the repeat pattern are shown so there are hundreds of crabs.

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May is crab month for #InsertAnInvert2024 🦀 & the first prompt is “true crab.” Time after time shrimp like crustaceans have evolved crablike forms (through a process called carcinization) & do a good job of pretending to be crabs, but this odd looking fellow is the real deal, a true crab. My red frog crab (Ranina ranina), also known as a spanner crab or Huỳnh Đế crab, is hand-printed on Japanese kozo paper. 🧵1/n
#linocut #printmaking #crustacean #crab #frogCrab #MastoArt #wildlifeArt

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This is one of a series, each unique, of my hand made cyanotypes on watercolour paper (14" x 11") with an image of a cloud-filled sky overprinted with my linocut print of several kites, and wind-socks each collaged with beautiful Japanese washi papers.

The carp-shaped Koinobori wind socks (also known as satsuki-nobori) are flown in Japan to celebrate Tango no sekku, or Children's Day each May 5.

https://minouette.etsy.com/listing/1532511426

#linocut #printmaking #cyanotype #washi #kite #ChildrensDay #MastoArt

minouette, to folklore
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Happy May Day! This is hand-pulled lino block print of the Jack-in-the-Green (or Jack o' the Green) an English folk tradition for May Day. Wearing a conical or pyramidal wicker or wooden frame covered in foliage so as to conceal the wearer, the Jack-in-the-Green leads a May Day procession, dancing often with musicians and other figures. 🧵1/2
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minouette, to Neuroscience
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Happy birthday to Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852 - 1934), here in front of Purkinje and granule cells from a pigeon, based on one of his own drawings! Cajal &Golgi won the Nobel in 1906, "in recognition of their work on the structure of the nervous system". He was as much of an artist as he was a scientist & his 100s of drawings are still used for teaching purposes.⁠
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minouette, to random
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Another pattern of invertebrates for but this time from the Cambrian Period (from 538.8 to 485.4 million years ago). This pattern is made from my linocut animal prints with collaged washi papers. The spiky handprinted Wiwaxia, a soft-bodied animal covered in scales & spines lived in the early & middle Cambrian period and fossils are found worldwide, including in Canada’s Burgess Shale.
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The fossils of this unmistakable 5-eyed Opabinia, (with eyes on stalks, no less) a soft-bodied 7 cm long animal are found in the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale Lagerstätte (505 million years ago). Opabinia likely caught prey with the grasping claws on the end of its long tubular proboscis (like an elephant’s trunk).
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@artcollisions I put it on Spoonflower so yes, wallpaper is available!

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Happy birthday to British , , & Hertha Ayrton (1854-1923). I’ve shown her in my with a diagram of the dividers from her 1st of 26 (!) patents, one of her diagrams about the origin & growth of ripple marks & one of her diagrams of an electric arc lamp (a subject on which she literally wrote the textbook).⁠ 🧵1/n

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Today is also International Crow and Raven Appreciation Day and I for one, appreciate the corvids. They are extraordinarily intelligent birds! Here is my murder of crows, part of my series of collective nouns for animals series of prints.

The raven is the official bird of the Yukon, in my print with the official flora, fireweed.

Lastly my crow print, inspired by a photo my husband took.

A linocut print in the shape of the Yukon filled with violet fireweed behind a black raven.
Linocut of a group of four crows facing different directions and the words ‘A murder of crows.’ The word murder is red and looks like it was written on a typewriter. There are red crow tracks leading from it to the crows. Everything else is printed in black.

minouette, to wildlife
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For my Malayan tapirs, adult and baby. There are four types of tapir; this linocut is of both an adult and baby Malayan tapir. Tapirs always look very dapper, if improbable, in their black and white coat. The adults with their white saddles look like an aardvark crossed with an elephant, wearing a tuxedo. The babies have a delightful pattern of spots and stripes, and 🧵1/n

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I’ve been playing with using some natural history prints to make repeat patterns. So for I thought I would share some patterns like this one from my blue mussel .

The blue mussel (Mytilus edulis), or common mussel, is a medium-sized edible marine bivalve mollusc in the family Mytilidae. They are aptly called common mussels and are found on temperate beaches worldwide.

minouette, to worldwithoutus
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April 25 is so enjoy some Adélie penguins! ⠀
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This handsome couple, two Adélie penguins (Pygoscelis adeliae), common to all the Antarctic coasts, are hand printed in black ink with a hint of orange on white Japanese kozo (or mulberry) paper. Each print is 12.5” x 9.25” (31.8 cm x 23.5cm). Adélie penguins are the most widely spread and southernly penguins (along with the Emperor penguins).⠀
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minouette, to mathematics
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Happy birthday to Felix Klein (1849-1925). This is a hand-carved & printed image of the famous mathematical object, the Klein bottle. First described by mathematician Felix Klein in 1882, this object has a single surface, rather like a 3D version of a Möbius strip. It is what is called a a non-orientable surface in topology. 🧵1/n

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