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minouette

@minouette@spore.social

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

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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 🦀 & 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

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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.

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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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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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minouette,
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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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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.🧵

minouette,
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Many cherry species require insect . Farmers usually use honeybees, but not only are honeybees difficult to maintain, they are an introduced species which can endanger the biodiversity of native bees, here in North America, because they can out-compete native bees for pollen and introduce bee pathogens into the wild. But cherry blossoms are popular with many of our hundreds of native bee species, notably the mason bees and bumblebees in particular. 🧵2/3

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Encouraging and protecting these native species is a better solution for pollination and biodiversity.
(Blue orchard mason bees are both a native species and a managed species in farming, it should be noted.)

I’d like to draw some attention to the tremendous variation of beautiful wild bees, who even come in surprising colours like blue!

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For the #InsertAnInvert2024 prompt “not long, not limbless” the truly ornate Elvis worm! In 2020, scientists discovered 4 types of scale worms, with shimmering lavender, blue, & orange exoskeletons, which looked like they were wearing sequined jumpsuits like Elvis Presley! They named these worms Elvis worms. These species in the genus the genus Peinaleopolynoe are called P. goffrediae, P. mineoi, P. orphanae, and P. elvisi. 🧵1/n

#linocut #printmaking #sciArt #washi #scaleWorm #invertebrate

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Born on this day: J. R. Oppenheimer (1904-1967). While best remembered for his role in the Manhattan Project, he was a giant of 20th century theoretical physics, nominated for a Nobel 3 times. ⁠
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In 1927 he & Max Born greatly simplified how we predict electrons behaviour within atoms. The Born-Oppenheimer or adiabatic approximation is based on the observation that electrons are 1000s times lighter than nuclei, 🧵1/n

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Time to print more parasaurolophuses!

This is a linocut of the Parasaurolophus dinosaur, the Late Cretaceous duck-billed hadrosaur with the strange hollow crest on its skull like its own built-in nose trumpet.

The instantly recognizable, large, elaborate cranial crest makes the Parasaurolophus one of the most popular dinosaurs today. It is believed that the crest allowed these animals to distinguish between 🧵

minouette, to climate
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Happy birthday to Charles David Keeling (1928 - 2005) whose decades long observations of CO2 in air samples from Mauna Loa Observatory were some of the 1st direct data to show the human contribution to greenhouse effect & global warming. The 'Keeling Curve' (in copper & red) shows both the seasonal variations (the wiggles) & the strong upward trend with time as the greenhouse gas built up in the atmosphere. 🧵1/

minouette, to Typography
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Raccoon Greetings for National High Five Day! This is a portrait of a former neighbour who showed up at my back door like this, to enquire as to where I had moved the compost bin. So I took his photo and made a print.

Toronto belongs to the raccoons. They just let us live here because we have good snacks.

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minouette, to chemistry
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Happy birthday to Marie Maynard Daly (1921-2003), 1st Black woman to earn a PhD in in the US! She made important research contributions to our understanding of the biochemisty of the cell nucleus & cardiovascular issues & the chemistry of histones & protein synthesis. She established that "no bases other than adenine, guanine, thymine, and cytosine were present in appreciable amounts" in DNA -

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For worm prompt “not long, limbless” an animal that is fuchsia, indigo and yellow (that I used for the split complimentary colour scheme prompt). 🧵1/2

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