I've made a blog post of all 30 of my #SciArtSeptember posts for 2023! Much thanks to
Glendon Mellow and Liz Butler for such excellent prompts again this year. And to @kristinHenry for our great #SciArt server here!
This #SciArt#embroidery, mitosis sampler (2016), shows cell division, a type of rebirth. I'm currently in the process of turning this piece into an embroidery pattern.
For the #SciArtSeptember prompt rebirth it’s my immortal jellyfish!
Turritopsis dohrnii mis the only known animal to be able to revert to its younger colonial stage after having reached maturity. The full-grown T. dohrnii jellyfish medusa, if it gets stressed, or old & sick, can revert back to the polyp stage, form a new polyp colony & start all over.
There are many "tall tales" about rattlesnakes and their rattles! I designed this model to demonstrate the structure of a rattlesnake's rattle, and how it produces sound.
This #anatomy#embroidery, nave of vibration (2017) is an inner ear stitched on purple cloth. The inner ear also contains crystals called otoliths. #SciArt
This #MECFS#symptomatology#embroidery, paresthesia (foot) (2016) is heavy with threads, representing the extreme tingling I had in my feet at the time. #SciArt
Alchemy was still practised in the 16th C when cabinets of curiosity became popular. Here's an excerpt from my video poem, ossa.ora (2015), full of curious objects, esp teeth, with hip joint as a crucible. #SciArt
For #SciArtSeptember prompt “alchemical” my new #linocut portrait of the earliest recorded #alchemist: Mary the Jewess (aka Maria Hebraea, Miriam, or Maria Prophetissa). Alchemist Zosimos of Panopolis (~300 CE), cites her research & innovations & several scholars suspect she lived in 1st century Alexandria. Zosimos relates that she wrote a treatise called "On Furnaces and Apparatuses" & she invented, or at least described … 🧵1/n
An experiment in layering translucent filament over solid-colored to get a metallic effect. It worked ok, but all the filament changes made them a pain to print, and they were a pain to photograph, so I never listed them.
For the #SciArtSeptember prompt “metallic” my linocut Osmia lignaria, the metallic blue orchard mason bee.
We think of bees as living in hives, but these bees live in reeds or natural holes which they divide into chambers with mud walls. We also tend to picture yellow and black stripes, but this small bee is blue to blue-green. 🧵1/2
This #MECFS#symptomatology#embroidery, she was tributaries (2016), is my representation of the cognitive dysfunction called brain fog. For me, it feels more like an electrical storm than a fog. #SciArt
This #MECFS#symptomatology#embroidery, paresthesia (tongue 1) (2016) has French knots that look like tastebuds, but actually represent the tingling I feel in my tongue. #SciArt