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minouette

@minouette@spore.social

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

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Happy birthday to #astronomer Vera Rubin (neé Cooper, ‘28-‘16) & her discovery that angular motion of galaxies deviates from predictions, 1st evidence for dark matter, now known as 5x as common as matter & the stuff which dictates dynamics of galaxies & evolution of our universe! Nobel committee waited 3 years after she died to reward another for the theory of dark matter.

She found 6 months mat leave post MSc very difficult being
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#printmaking #sciart #linocut #womenInSTEM #MastoArt

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Spent long enough at sea to be firmly Team Calcite: found in shells, fossils & the lenses of trilobite eyes! Vikings used Iceland spar to polarize light & find sun on a cloudy day to navigate.

Sure opals are pretty but calcite also gets the art vote. Carved since ancient Egyptian times.

My linocut nautilus print in burgundy on white paper
Linocut (by me) of Mary Anning in green in large coat and bonnet with geological hammer and basket in front of blue lias cliff in silver with fossils she found
Linocut (by me) of Mary Anning in green in large coat and bonnet with geological hammer and basket in front of blue lias cliff in silver with fossils she found

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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Another pattern of invertebrates for #InverteFest2024 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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#linocut #printmaking #pattern #paleontology #sciArt #Cambrian

minouette, to chemistry
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For #SciArtSeptember day 9: heart, it’s trailblazing American #biochemist Marie Maynard Daly (1921-2003), 1st Black woman to earn a PhD in #chemistry in the US! She made important research contributions to the biochemisty of the cell nucleus & cardiovascular issues & our knowledge of the chemistry of histones & protein synthesis. She published original research establishing that….

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#MastoArt #womenInSTEM #BlackInSTEM #histstm #printmaking #linocut #histmed #HeartDisease #sciArt

minouette, to chemistry
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For Day 2, Kathleen Lonsdale DBE FRS (née Yardley, 1903-1971) who solved the longstanding conundrum of the shape of benzene. Here with her drawing of electron density for hexachlorobenzene (green) & model of hexamethylbenzene explore shape in different forms. Her husband said, “Before prison it might have bothered her to go to Buckingham Palace. Afterwards, Holloway or Buckingham Palace were all the same.” 🧵1

minouette, to history
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Happy birthday to chemistry trailblazer Marie-Anne Paulze Lavoisier (20 January 1758 – 10 February 1836), wife and collaborator of French scientist Antoine Lavoisier (26 August 1743 – 8 May 1794).

The Lavoisiers, working closely together, modernized and quantified chemistry and the scientific method, recognized and named oxygen and hydrogen, explained the role that oxygen plays in combustion, 🧵1/n

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It’s the day to celebrate the superb owls! All owls 🦉 are superb but here are some local favourites.

I love the whimsical terms of venery for groups of animals and have an ongoing series of prints. For my parliament of owls I made two columns of local owls - you can decide for yourself which are the government an which the loyal opposition in this parliament!

minouette, to Toronto
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Happy #SquirrelAppreciationDay! Despite the opinion of some people in my home there's a colony of white squirrels in Toronto's Trinity-Bellwood Park! I know. I've seen them. It's sort of become a running joke to question the reality of the white squirrels of Trinity-Bellwoods, but they are well documented. You can google it. They even have a street, White Squirrel Way, and a café named after them.
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#linocut #printmaking #squirrel #whiteSquirrel #Toronto #MastoArt #TrinityBellwoods #typography

minouette, to folklore
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I’m experimenting with kitchen litho on aluminum foil! On Thursday I took a great online workshop & managed to make a very small edition of wolpertinger* prints. It’s tricky but also extraordinary to get detailed prints with household items like aluminum foil, vegetable oil, cola and water.

I tried different papers & printed them by hand with glass baren & wooden spoon. It’s a lot of elbow grease!

A photo of pulling a print from my aluminum foil litho plate with an image of a wolpertinger (legendary composite creature like a fanged, winged hare with antlers and squirrel tail). On the left is the shiny aluminum foil with what looks like a black ink drawing of the wolpertinger. On the right I am pulling back a sheet of Japanese paper with the reflected image printed upon it.

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Lizardite, a green serpentine-subgroup mineral is surprisingly not named for lizards, but for The Lizard, in Cornwall, also strangely not named for lizards but rather for “Lys Ardh” the Cornish High Court.

I will give Rhodochrosite the art vote. It does appear in jewelry, but really it’s for strictly aesthetic “forbidden bacon” reasons. I mean look at it! #MinCup23

A hand holds a long thin piece of rhodochrosite which looks remarkably like a piece of bacon. In the background is a breakfast table, complete with two fried eggs on a plate and assorted fruit.

minouette, to science
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Happy birthday to Charles Darwin (1809-1882)! Today is Darwin Day to celebrate his birthday, science and evolution.

“The inhabitants believe that these animals are absolutely deaf; certainly they do not overhear a person walking closely behind them. I was always amused, when overtaking one of these great monsters as it was quietly pacing along, to see how suddenly,

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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).⁠
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minouette, to folklore
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Do you need some slightly sinister winter folklore cards for the holidays? Because it’s a great time to get some from minouette.etsy.com!

The Yule Cat, Jólakötturinn of Iceland, where good children received new clothes at Christmas, would eat the lazier ones who got no new clothes!

Krampus, the scary horned counterpart to Santa of Alpine folklore, appears with with birch rods, & naughty child in a basket. 🧵1/n

My Yule Cat linocut shows a giant cat on a tiny snow covered cabin in a pine forest, printed in dark blue with “Yule Cat” above & “Jólakötturinn” below.

minouette, to wildflowers
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This is a unique hand made cyanotype on watercolour paper (8" x 10.25") with a deckle edge an image wildflowers and grasses with three linocut, moths. The moths are all found here in Ontario: the yellow and purplish-pink Imperial moth (Eacles imperialis), the red-orange, black and cream Virgin Tiger Moth (Apantesis virgo), and the black and white White Underwing (Catocala relicta).

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My lino print with collaged Japanese washi papers on a white mulberry leaf paper with bark inclusions shows blossoming cherry branches & two of our wild, native bees: the bumblebee (Bombus impatiens) and the Blue Orchard Mason Bee (Osmia lignaria). I printed it by hand on Japanese kozo (or mulberry paper), 16” x 20” with various collaged Japanese washi papers for the blossoms, bee bodies and wings.🧵

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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.

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#MayDay #printmaking #linocut #washi #JackInTheGreen #JackOTheGreen #springtime #Beltane #folklore #folkTraditions

minouette, to history
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For my ongoing series of portraits of women in science through history. If you look for them, they’re there. I’m up to 56 now. Here’s to the day when a scientist’s sex is no longer remarkable in any field!

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this is a collection of linocut prints of (top row): mathematician Sophie Germaine, astronomer Nicole-Reine Lepaute and crystallographer Kathleen Lonsdale Middle: Amateur mathematician Marjorie Rice Bottom row: Astronomer Vera Rubin, Mathematician Katherine Johnson and Mathematician Virginia Ragsdale Each is shown with a representation of their scientific work.
A collection of 6 of my linocut portraits of women scientists illustrated with tools of their trade or research results. Top row: Margaret Fountaine, Marie-Anne Paulze Lavoisier, Annie Jump Cannon. Second row: Mary the Jewess, Maude Jane Delap, Hildegard von Bingen

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What’s inside this cigar box? A black smoker - with giant tube worms (Riftia pachyptila) for . I’ve had the idea for this in my head for years! Cigar box, collaged papers, gouache, Posca pen, glue, washi tape.

I’ve never had the opportunity to go on a research cruise to a hydrothermal vent, though I have contributed to plans for monitoring and seen a lot of footage shot by 🧵1/n

minouette, to history
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Happy birthday to Canadian geneticist Irene Ayako Uchida (1917-2013)! She is shown surrounded by chromosones, with anomalies (pink arrows) due to radiation exposure, based on 1 of her research papers. A strand of DNA is hidden in the image (her watchband).⁠
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Uchida didn’t set out to be a scientist. She was studying English literature at UBC, before she was interned with other Canadians of Japanese heritage during WWII. 🧵1/

minouette, to folklore
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Happy New Year 2024! Let’s hope it’s a good one…

This linocut shows how I imagine the great white stork of European folklore, who carries babies to new parents.

The ancient stork-the-baby-bringer legend was made popular by Hans Christian Anderson’s story called ‘The Storks’. 🧵1/2

minouette, to ArtificialIntelligence
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For Day 10: Happy birthday to Ada Lovelace (1815-1852), who published the first computer program. She worked together with Charles Babbage, the inventor of the Difference Engine and the Analytical Engine (the first - analogue! - ), correcting his notes on how to calculate Bernoulli Numbers with the Analytical Engine. 🧵1/n

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Happy birthday to #paleontologist Mary Anning (1799 –1847)! She was the wrong class, sex & religious denomination to gain the education, opportunity to work & communicate her results or garner any respect as a pioneering paleontologist. Further, during her lifetime most people thought Earth was a mere few thousand years old, based on a very literal interpretation of the Bible & found the idea of extinction did not fit in with the story of creation. 🧵1/
#linocut #sciart #womenInSTEM #printmaking

minouette, to history
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When your print in progress requires you to do some mathematics…

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Happy birthday Chien-shiung Wu (1912-1997), who came up with a truly beautiful experiment to test whether the weak force conserves parity (whether beta decay would be the same if reflected in the mirror)! In my print on the left I show Wu in her lab & a schematic diagram of her experiment. On the right I show her reflection, as in the mirror, & the mirror reflection of the experimental set-up & the shocking result, that 🧵1/n

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