tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-76224728993824203962024-03-05T16:29:08.308-05:00magpie & whiskeyjackUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger289125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7622472899382420396.post-63717455186960950632022-06-08T14:04:00.000-04:002022-06-08T14:04:11.428-04:00Kepler's Dream: Speculative Fiction in Early Science<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjgU4B4uxOEHhWcu9sT8j0Iv0xz9-FSOtqQ76T2nZR9EnUawMcsOWsOAsspwBlWCD4LZNy2UF75mMafR5NZq7frCqFSdiCiHi_2Iz0Hn02QNmn77l4iCjSEbM0Jh_rvrUB-31K6QwewiquoXiSZKhnkZkfyKcz9EGAWgD2bup7BS4k9LUzZ4POas8ow=s1495" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1495" data-original-width="1495" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjgU4B4uxOEHhWcu9sT8j0Iv0xz9-FSOtqQ76T2nZR9EnUawMcsOWsOAsspwBlWCD4LZNy2UF75mMafR5NZq7frCqFSdiCiHi_2Iz0Hn02QNmn77l4iCjSEbM0Jh_rvrUB-31K6QwewiquoXiSZKhnkZkfyKcz9EGAWgD2bup7BS4k9LUzZ4POas8ow=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(38, 38, 38); color: #262626; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">The idea of the Music of the Spheres, like a symphony made by the motions of the cosmos is ancient. Sometimes Kepler is presented as a modern thinker who took the heliocentric Copernican model and placed it on a mathematical footing, correcting the circular orbits with ellipses (with our Sun at one focus). The truth is messier. Kepler started with music! Influenced by these mystical ideas, Kepler published <i>Harmonices Mundi</i> making his case that musical intervals and harmonies described the known planets and moon. He thought they made an inaudible harmony which could be heard by the soul. He also proposed that the planetary orbits were in the same proportions as a nested series of the five regular Platonic solids. His famous 3 laws of orbital motion were more of an afterthought and even then, he related angular speeds to musical intervals. The image is my Copernicus </span><a class="xil3i" href="https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/linocut/" style="border: 0px; color: rgba(var(--fe0,0,55,107),1); font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" tabindex="0">linocut</a><span face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(38, 38, 38); color: #262626; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"> with Kepler’s scales for planets and moon. </span></blockquote></td></tr></tbody></table><br />In retelling the history of science it can often be presented as a series of facts or discoveries, sanitized of wrong turns, misleading presentations and striped of the story of how it was communicated to contemporaries. (I should point out that I'm not talking about how historians of science retell the history of science, but more everyone else). We rarely learn that the giants upon whose shoulders we stand were often also just lucky or got to the right answer for the wrong reasons or simultaneously believed some very strange, unsubstantiated things. There's a story to be told by the way thinkers and early scientists communicated their ideas to their contemporaries, and it's not a story which is well-known.<p></p><h1 class="quoteText" style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24); color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px;">“Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night:<br />God said, Let Newton be! and all was light.”</h1><div>-Alexander Pope, 1688</div><div><br /></div><div>It's occurred to me that basically, I'm railing against Pope, cause that's <i><b>nonsense</b></i>. Don't get me wrong. I'm a physicist by training. Newton's impact on physics and science broadly was tremendous. Newton's laws of motion, Newton's law of universal gravitation, and optics were genuinely revolutionary. But they didn't occur in a vacuum (no pun intended). Our knowledge of Newton's science is not due to his existence and the sudden consequential enlightenment for us all. Newton was a piece of work. We owe the publication of his grand book the <i>Principia </i>(1687)<i> </i>largely to the patience, diplomacy and determined persuasion of Edmond Halley (of comet fame) because otherwise, Newton might have taken much of his knowledge to the grave in a paranoid and antisocial fashion. Newton also had some very odd, arguably heretical religious and occultist beliefs and practised alchemy, which while it was a precursor of chemistry, was definitely filled with ideas that were not scientific and based on ideas about magic. Further, other scientists were working toward similar scientific ideas as Newton, which belies the lone genius myth. Robert Hooke (another real character) had deduced that gravitation was an inverse square law; the two argued over who had first made this discovery and I suspect Newton added Hooke to his long list of enemies. But even Newton acknowledged that Hooke and others knew the form of the law of gravitation by the 1660s. Halley himself had a weird and incorrect hollow Earth theory. We learn about Johannes Kepler's brilliant laws of planetary motion, building on Copernicus's heliocentric model, but it's rarely stressed that he came to his ideas not just through mathematics. It's not often that teachers point out that Kepler's model was based first on music and what frequencies of revolution would make nice harmonies if they were interpreted as notes and later on the proportions of regular Platonic solids, rather than simply trying to model Tycho Brahe's observations (though in his defence, it would decades before the long-awaited publication of the <i>Principia, </i>which would have provided him the tools needed<i>)</i>. But my point being, this is not a story of confusion punctuated by insights which suddenly clear everything up. This is a much messier story.</div><div><br /></div><div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjM9x0KBEb3cNg2uJIxo6VrkeSAwPhyBJ6Y2KxlA0J59wjXQZ7vt-QWgs3UX1sJCpoog1dATYscB38dXNHqatIAwyHsXOlfUFWB58rCUodWPHy0_WTy8gzjWGudcVQimpx_Q-bXN_WXiHDFoTbaXZTjyWV2-Nn7nKoa5kmLvDAh7aj1cAuNp86JV3CT=s774" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="774" data-original-width="704" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjM9x0KBEb3cNg2uJIxo6VrkeSAwPhyBJ6Y2KxlA0J59wjXQZ7vt-QWgs3UX1sJCpoog1dATYscB38dXNHqatIAwyHsXOlfUFWB58rCUodWPHy0_WTy8gzjWGudcVQimpx_Q-bXN_WXiHDFoTbaXZTjyWV2-Nn7nKoa5kmLvDAh7aj1cAuNp86JV3CT=s320" width="291" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); color: #202122; text-align: start;">Kepler's </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platonic_solid" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; text-align: start; text-decoration: none;" title="Platonic solid">Platonic solid</a><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); color: #202122; text-align: start;"> model of the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_System" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; text-align: start; text-decoration: none;" title="Solar System">Solar System</a><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); color: #202122; text-align: start;">, from </span><i style="caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; text-align: start;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mysterium_Cosmographicum" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Mysterium Cosmographicum">Mysterium Cosmographicum</a></i><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); color: #202122; text-align: start;"> (1596)</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><br />I think we also often forget that a standard protocol of professional peer review scientific journals is quite recent. Scientific societies go back centuries, and did publish and otherwise disseminate scientific results but quality was mixed, and certainly influenced by biases like the sex, nationality, race, class and rank of the author. There was not a standard method for presenting results. Some discoveries were announced in letters to say, the Royal Society, which can be seen as an early precursor to scientific papers as we know them. Many early discoveries were presented in books. Something I find interesting is how they were combined with literature, in several instances, though not always without danger and risking accusations of heresy. Italian astronomer Giordano Bruno was burned at the stake after including some imaginative speculation with his science, arguing the universe is infinite and filled with innumerable potentially inhabitable worlds in 1600. Galileo presented his evidence supporting the Copernican model in 1632 in <i><b>Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems </b></i>(<i>Dialogo sopra i due massimi sistemi del mondo</i>) which is quite literally written as a dialogue between two philosophers and a layman. The staunch anti-Copernican follower of Ptolemy and Aristotle is name Simplicio as a broad hint to the reader! Galileo, like others including Hooke and Dutch astronomer Christiaan Huygens*, sometimes announced new results in an anagram, to establish priority <i>without actually revealing what they discovered</i>! English clergyman and natural philosopher <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wilkins">John Wilkins</a> wrote <i>The Discovery of a World in the Moone</i> in 1638, inferring from the recent discovery of lunar mountains that it might also have inhabitants<i>.</i><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(29, 39, 49); color: #1d2731; font-family: Alegreya, serif; font-size: 19.630001068115234px;"> </span>Jesuit scholar and polymath Athanasius Kirchner (who disagreed with Kepler and Galileo) wrote only two pieces of imaginative fiction, but one was a mystical dialogue about space travel between an angel and a narrator called <i>Itinerarium exstaticum</i> in 1656. Huygens also wrote a book length speculation about extraterrestrial life, <i>Cosmotheoros, </i>in Latin,<i> </i>which he had published posthumously in 1698 for fear of censure (written partially as an annoyed response to Kirchner). It was translated in English as <i>The Celestial Worlds Discover'd. </i>When Margaret Cavendish, the first and one of the only women who was able to attend a Royal Society meeting for centuries (as her wealth, rank and connections helped supersede the bias against her sex) and one of the first women to publish in her own name wrote <i>Observations upon Experimental Philosophy</i> in 1666, she appended one of the earliest science fiction novels, a sort of imaginative complement to the science: <i>The Description of a New World, Called The Blazing-World</i>, better known as The Blazing World, a fantasy, utopian satire. So with this sort of context, perhaps it makes sense that Kepler thought to try and write persuasively about his knowledge of lunar astronomy in the form of fiction, and in fact, an even earlier** example of science fiction. </div><div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; background-color: white; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.199999809265137px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 5px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh19bPYdrL6UKXV215_JabjKTXSocOsuVxQys8P9ouJ6sZOdq9xo2PV9KJq9vQV_YoKYT2RZ_rLSF18edw5RjUd4RUw8EOoWDqh6VlaM3T_CqtnsvmYUCfVEDC8suHOM5wN_X2FLLWRLZYQ/s1600/MargaretCavendish_1.jpg" style="color: #8832ff; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1172" data-original-width="921" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh19bPYdrL6UKXV215_JabjKTXSocOsuVxQys8P9ouJ6sZOdq9xo2PV9KJq9vQV_YoKYT2RZ_rLSF18edw5RjUd4RUw8EOoWDqh6VlaM3T_CqtnsvmYUCfVEDC8suHOM5wN_X2FLLWRLZYQ/w314-h400/MargaretCavendish_1.jpg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 0px 0px 0px; border: none; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 0px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative;" width="314" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 10.5600004196167px;"><a href="https://www.etsy.com/ca/listing/611949454/linocut-portrait-of-margaret-cavendish" style="color: #8832ff; text-decoration: none;">Margaret Cavendish and the Blazing World</a> linocut 11" x 14", 2018, by Ele Willoughby<br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Kepler wrote his <i>Somnium</i> (or The Dream) in 1608 and it was published posthumously in 1634 by his son. Its origin is even earlier. It harkens back to his frustrations with his<strong style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype"; text-align: justify;"> </strong><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype"; text-align: justify;">dissertation of 1593 where he argued that an observer on the moon would see the </span><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype;">Earth move just as we see the moon move from our frame of reference. But the </span><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">Tübingen faculty, who disallowed new Copernican astronomy (and forced Kepler's mentor </span><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">Maestlin to keep his thoughts to himself) vetoed debate on this idea. Kepler was able to graduate and continue with his career, but never forgot how this irked him. He eventually publishing a mystical combination of Aristotelian and Copernican astronomy called </span><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype";"><i>Mysterium Cosmographicum</i>, </span><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype;">which landed him a job with Danish astronomer and Imperial Mathematician to the Holy Roman Emperor, Tycho Brahe. Kepler inherited both Brahe's position but more importantly his unparalleled decades of observational data, which ultimately allowed him to deduce his law of ellipses published in his <i>Astronomia Nova</i> in 1609. Then his </span><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">f</span><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">riend and ecclesiastical advisor to Emperor Rudolph, Wackher von Wackenfels asked him what he thought caused shadows on the moon. Unlike the </span><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype;">Aristotelian Emperor who thought they were shadows of Earth's land masses, Kepler knew they were mountains and other geological features. </span><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">Wackenfels encouraged Kepler to </span><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype;">publish his own thoughts on this. So Kepler reimagined his thesis as </span><i>Somnium, </i>an imaginative story to get around the objections of the Aristotelians and to allow him to introduce a supernatural means of travelling to the moon to give him a reason to speculate about the lunar surface. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Like Cavendish, he inserts himself into the story, but only as a framing device. Also like Cavendish, his prose is pretty clunky. The plot of the story is that Kepler himself falls asleep, reading a book of legends, and has a dream. He dreams he's reading a book! The book tells of a young 14 year old Icelandic boy named <span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">Duracotus, being raised by his widowed mother </span><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype;">Fiolxhilde, a wise woman who earns her living selling pouches of herbs to the sailors at port, as lucky charms with healing powers. The boy curiously cuts open a pouch and looses its contents. His mother sells him to the sailor in a fit of pique. Luckily for the boy, the sailor sails promptly to Denmark to deliver a letter to Tycho Brahe, who questions the boy, deems him clever, and decides to train him in astronomy, much to his delight. After five years, he takes his leave and returns home to find his mother had suffered after her rash decision and was overjoyed to see him. He tells her of his experience and training and she is thrilled. She reveals she has her own source of astronomical knowledge, the Daemon of Lavania, or spirit of the moon. Even more astonishingly, it is possible to travel to Lavania (the moon) with the Daemon's help and she proposes they both make the voyage. After sunset, she summons the Daemon and they make the voyage of "fifty thousand German miles" to the moon. This is about a factor of 5 too small, but it's the right order of magnitude and a decent estimate for the day.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_jSQS4ndyKGuj3uiqWNBEcXFFUC2BB3KXciL3LZGMiEuCb5_YLK7xQ6MMnusAGwawxDwvFnk1CP8w-1ER5bJovEGssqGtUlax6sz_HN9FVqhXaOPVRnCzbXrNC3AluSegLUYC7Tw86SsEGbFRTIOt37QPxVpamMD6817DKn8eZssWDZ1vmSHCazU_/s2749/KeplerSomnium-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2749" data-original-width="2045" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_jSQS4ndyKGuj3uiqWNBEcXFFUC2BB3KXciL3LZGMiEuCb5_YLK7xQ6MMnusAGwawxDwvFnk1CP8w-1ER5bJovEGssqGtUlax6sz_HN9FVqhXaOPVRnCzbXrNC3AluSegLUYC7Tw86SsEGbFRTIOt37QPxVpamMD6817DKn8eZssWDZ1vmSHCazU_/w476-h640/KeplerSomnium-1.jpg" width="476" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.etsy.com/ca/listing/1193497633/lino-block-print-illustration-of-keplers?click_key=7426b42297f69fc4169c54a49b04056ebd59f507%3A1193497633&click_sum=ca1a7027&ga_search_query=somnium&ref=shop_items_search_1&sts=1">Kepler's Somnium</a>, linocut by Ele Willoughby, 2022</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype;">The voyage is four hours and very difficult, and travellers are "hurled just as though he had been shot aloft by gunpowder to sail over mountains and seas," (to overcome what we now know is gravity) and thus are drugged with opiates to avoid shock. Damp sponges are used to allow them to breathe. The speed is so great the body instinctively rolls up and continues (due to what we now know as inertia) to move forward. They can only travel at the eclipse (notably a maximum of 4.5 hours, long enough for their 4 hour trip) to avoid the solar radiation in transit. The exhausted travellers are immediately brought to a cave, to shelter from the sun, and meet other daemons to learn about the moon's geography. This is an excuse for our author to basically dump all of his lunar astronomy knowledge so there's a long section of facts which don't advance the story as Kepler retells his thesis research. Then he describes a moon divided into Subvolva (which is below Volva, aka the Earth) and Privolva which never sees Volva (our far-side of the moon). Our moon is tidally-locked to the Earth so we only ever see one side. Kepler explains that the lunar day is a month of two weeks of scorching heat and two weeks of cold. He imagines the Earth, Volva, has a moderating effect on climate. He describes geography like our own but exaggerated with soaring mountains and plunging valleys. Likewise his imagined lifeforms are monstrous in size. He imagines nomadic Privolvans, some with legs larger than camels, or wings, following receding water in boats or diving under water (to survive the extremes of climate)<b style="font-size: 14.666666984558105px;">. </b><span style="font-size: 14.666666984558105px;">Thus he's imagined intelligent extraterrestrials, which was a radical (and arguably heretical) idea in his time. He imagines Subvolvan like giant serpents wit spongy skin and animals shaped like pinecones. The story ends abruptly. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype;"><span style="font-size: 14.666666984558105px;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype;"><span style="font-size: 14.666666984558105px;">Kepler did not get the opportunity to publish this manuscript during his lifetime, but he did circulate it amongst friends. He lost control of the manuscript in 1611 and strangers, not up on the latest debates in science got access to it. Though he literally put himself into the story as the dreamer, readers saw the boy </span></span><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">Duracotus trained by Tycho Brahe as a self-insert for Kepler. So they deduced that the fictional </span><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">mother </span><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype;">Fiolxhilde, wise woman and herb seller who communes with a demon, was a stand-in for Kepler's mother Katherine Kepler, an herbalist who was known to her neighbours for her vile temper, raised by an aunt, who had been burned as a witch. Ironically, it is really the </span><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">Daemon of Lavania who is the voice of Kepler, revealing his lunar knowledge. </span><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">By 1615, Katherine was arrested on suspicion of being a witch. Kepler's scheme to express his ideas and knowledge in fiction, to avoid the ire of the Aristotelians, had backfired badly, contributing to his mother getting caught up in the witch-craze. Kepler appreciated the danger and dropped all work to fight to exonerate his mother. The fight took 5 years, some of which she spent in prison, and the ordeal hastened her death two years later. Kepler felt culpable and her loss weighed on him. All of his work was set aside during this fight and publishing the </span><i style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">Somnium</i><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype";"> in particular was out of the question. Over the last decade of his life he added 223 footnotes to the text, to insert most of the hard science. Having already faced such extreme consequences he no longer feared reprisals from Aristotelians. But, he died in 1630 with only 6 pages typeset. His son-in-law Jacob Bartsch took over, but he too died suddenly before it was published. Finally, his son Lucas published the book in an effort to help with his mother's financial distress. While not widely known today, the strange text casts has influenced science fiction and a marks one of the earliest scientific studies of an extraterrestrial planetary body.</span></div><div><br /></div><div>*Huygens had his own dispute with Hooke over who invented the balance spring to regulate portable watches. </div><div><br /></div><div>**But in my book, by no means the earliest. See for instance <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_True_Story" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none;" title="">A True Story</a><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); color: #202122; font-size: 14px;"> by </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucian" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none;" title="Lucian">Lucian of Samosata</a> (2nd century CE) which includes space exploration, aliens and interplanetary warfare - and which Kepler owned. There is also a near contemporary Copernican lunar science fiction story written by English historian <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Godwin">Francis Godwin</a> (1562-1634), <i>The Man in the Moone</i>, written in the 1620s and published 1638. Of course, clearly defining what counts as science fiction isn't entirely straightforward either.</div><div><br /></div><div><b>References</b></div><div><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://somniumproject.wordpress.com/somnium/">The Somnium Projec</a>t, accessed March, 2022</span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somnium_(novel)">Somnium (novel)</a>, Wikipedia, accessed March, 2022</span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-small;">Gale E. Christianson, <span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">Kepler's <a href="https://www.depauw.edu/sfs/backissues/8/christianson8art.htm"><em>Somnium</em>: Science Fiction and the Renaissance Scientist</a>, Science Fiction Studies, #8, vol. 3, part 1, March 1976</span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">Greg Gbur, <a href="https://skullsinthestars.com/2018/02/23/somnium-by-johannes-kepler/">Somnium, by Johannes Kepler</a>, Skull in the Stars blog, February 23, 2018</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://publicdomainreview.org/contributors#emily-lord-fransee" style="box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(29, 39, 49); color: #1d2731; font-family: Alegreya, serif; text-align: center; text-decoration-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: underline; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s;">Emily Lord Fransee</a>, <span style="caret-color: rgb(29, 39, 49); color: #1d2731; font-family: Alegreya, serif; text-align: center;"><a href="https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/mistress-of-a-new-world-early-science-fiction-in-europes-age-of-discovery">Mistress of a New World </a></span><span style="caret-color: rgb(29, 39, 49); color: #1d2731; font-family: Alegreya, serif;"><a href="https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/mistress-of-a-new-world-early-science-fiction-in-europes-age-of-discovery">Early Science Fiction in Europe’s “Age of Discovery” </a>, </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(29, 39, 49); color: #1d2731; font-family: Alegreya, serif;">The Public Domain Review, October 11, 2018</span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://publicdomainreview.org/contributors#hugh-aldersey-williams" style="box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(29, 39, 49); color: #1d2731; font-family: Alegreya, serif; text-align: center; text-decoration-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: underline; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s;">Hugh Aldersey-Williams</a>, <span style="caret-color: rgb(29, 39, 49); color: #1d2731; font-family: Alegreya, serif; text-align: center;"><a href="https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/the-uncertain-heavens">The Uncertain Heavens, </a></span><span style="caret-color: rgb(29, 39, 49); color: #1d2731; font-family: Alegreya, serif; text-align: center;"><a href="https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/the-uncertain-heavens">Christiaan Huygens’ Ideas of Extraterrestrial Life</a>, The Public Domain Review, October 21, 2020</span></span></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7622472899382420396.post-44673309914084518082022-01-27T10:46:00.000-05:002022-01-27T10:46:41.632-05:00Lichen Love<p>Lichen is a strange and beautiful life form, or rather a mutualistic relationship between algae or Cyanobacteria and fungi to make a composite organism. They have different shapes, sizes, parts, colours and somehow have properties which differ from those of their component parts. Like plants they photosynthesize, but they have no roots. I recall learning as a child how they were the trailblazers, making their home on the rocks of the Canadian Shield, and allowing a succession of other organisms to grow on top, till we have large trees which appear to grow straight out of the rock, but without lichen it could not be there. When lichen grows on trees it is not a parasite, it just uses plants as a surface on which to grow. They grow in a huge range of environments, even tundra, deserts, mountains and rainforests on virtually any convenient surface. Scientists estimate 6 to 8% of the Earth's land surface is covered by lichen, and yet we can walk right by without giving it a second thought.</p><p>Some though, have long admired lichen, especially its extraordinary colour palette and variety of textures and forms. This is a selection of the colour charts based on lichen <span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666;">from the </span><i style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Svensk Lafvarnas Farghistoria</i><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666;"> by Johan Peter Westring. Printed in 1805-09. Via the </span><a href="http://biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/13799" style="color: #1e6670; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Biodiversity Heritage Library</a><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666;"> archive. </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhwJMIIpaeBuk7HzhSebtNw8BJ0R8W7ou1p_YpzhO3CQUZqFrO-9aMeEWjJU_eh-3gazSowFNfctjM8WDyDBxrc2Pu8uq-gFYLjJ6NbfQeaBC7ymw2QK8WeQgvailfccIrtuYdcAM8q-p0VyI0WpPmwg0DPvWQVzxcWAfGXy0ia7KYeYs5BzfT1GFE2=s800" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Svenska lafvarnas färghistoria Stockholm :Tryckt hos C. 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Delén,1805-[1809]" width="344" /></a></div><p></p><div class="columns-inner" style="min-height: 0px;"><div class="column-center-outer" style="float: left; position: relative; width: 620px;"><div class="column-center-inner" style="padding: 0px;"><div class="main section" id="main" name="Main" style="margin: 0px 1em;"><div class="widget Blog" data-version="1" id="Blog1" style="line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px; min-height: 0px; position: relative;"><div class="blog-posts hfeed"><div class="date-outer"><div class="date-posts"><div class="post-outer"><div class="post hentry uncustomized-post-template" itemprop="blogPost" itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="http://schema.org/BlogPosting" style="margin: 0px 0px 45px; min-height: 0px; position: relative;"><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-4243706439612173946" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 596px;"><div class="columns-inner" style="min-height: 0px;"><div class="column-center-outer" style="float: left; 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clear: both; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: left;">One of my favourite lichen artists is Dr. Immy Smith (<a href="https://www.immysmith.net">website</a>, <a href="https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/ImmySmithArt">Etsy</a>, <a href="https://www.patreon.com/immysmith">Patreon</a>). They make a wide variety of artwork, much of it about natural history, or drawing on their background in neuroscience, but clearly they love lichen and have observed it very closely.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.199999809265137px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEifwaFDz6siw1vo9BYLIKclmgWfT3jQVdYQILa26QHz7Z696rmvDzI_XzTa4aOnBAeHpNvkcQbK9AEs42U48SXWodrK9tO47NpnWiuQGmU7wUdxoqtgC1wCj5t17qvbAN3JAqQ7HrnTUO-5Vzd3k5NvOHMVSe9yT4LEXajyIrT39AyMXsGbcNleCI6d=s3000" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="3000" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEifwaFDz6siw1vo9BYLIKclmgWfT3jQVdYQILa26QHz7Z696rmvDzI_XzTa4aOnBAeHpNvkcQbK9AEs42U48SXWodrK9tO47NpnWiuQGmU7wUdxoqtgC1wCj5t17qvbAN3JAqQ7HrnTUO-5Vzd3k5NvOHMVSe9yT4LEXajyIrT39AyMXsGbcNleCI6d=w640-h640" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: -webkit-standard; text-align: start;">'Lichen makes the landscape' - Immy Smith with Herbarium RNG curators</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Trebuchet MS, Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">They collaborated on the '<a href=" http://imaginingscienceart.blogspot.com/p/symbiosis.html">Symbiosis</a>' project as part of the part of the Imagining Science Polymathic Art & Science Collaborative, with fellow member Scott Mantooth and other artists, scientists and the University of Reading Herbarium and EM Lab (Centre for Advanced Microscopy). Other drawings illustrate scanning electron microscope images of lichen. You can read more <a href=" http://imaginingscienceart.blogspot.com/p/symbiosis.html">here</a>.</span></span></div></div><div class="separator" style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); clear: both; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.199999809265137px; text-align: left;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhM31LqjiWh2HaxbmuLsL-VXdiDVlqVcr92GRgvlOcObnTbJBDr7PYdhbAfmSvJ3wmvsuz2FErL0FA2T5_KUzghdmIYD2h3F13K4Ib1JOOrLd0dtRKZ28rEPVAwbNGP7SjzjP5Fhe4xTPcF4o4Cet0uVHrdaBt-rz5mRkGX3Q7Chcxadzj1hXfWSPPT=s6667" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2605" data-original-width="6667" height="250" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhM31LqjiWh2HaxbmuLsL-VXdiDVlqVcr92GRgvlOcObnTbJBDr7PYdhbAfmSvJ3wmvsuz2FErL0FA2T5_KUzghdmIYD2h3F13K4Ib1JOOrLd0dtRKZ28rEPVAwbNGP7SjzjP5Fhe4xTPcF4o4Cet0uVHrdaBt-rz5mRkGX3Q7Chcxadzj1hXfWSPPT=w640-h250" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: start;">'Reading campus twig' - Immy Smith with Herbarium RNG curators</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); clear: both; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.199999809265137px; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); clear: both; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.199999809265137px; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); clear: both; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: left;">UK textile artist <a href="https://www.amandacobbett.com/gallery2021">Amanda Cobett</a> makes papier maché and machine embroidered sculptures, often fungi and extraordinarily life-like lichen.</div><div class="separator" style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); clear: both; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.199999809265137px; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); 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font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.199999809265137px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjmqJkgwNefavvi8Z6Of6mAuu7YPC_iNCRstMaza-eu767AuBduieDGe94U7OsoE4adbAVZs_JsDF8-DLYPFRUPdAfxnRugHy-lfACsxjlmfQQpAoB4UDgdUnqkmftjoalRNM-pNS3alr4wbJDSXhrtIdloiJSSQVnr-3x04epwTv3XT69GWeGjobeo=s1200" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Amanda : Moss and Lichen TQ 085 439, 2018, Built up layers of free machine embroidery (Photo credit, Fraser James)" border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1200" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjmqJkgwNefavvi8Z6Of6mAuu7YPC_iNCRstMaza-eu767AuBduieDGe94U7OsoE4adbAVZs_JsDF8-DLYPFRUPdAfxnRugHy-lfACsxjlmfQQpAoB4UDgdUnqkmftjoalRNM-pNS3alr4wbJDSXhrtIdloiJSSQVnr-3x04epwTv3XT69GWeGjobeo=w640-h640" title="Amanda : Moss and Lichen TQ 085 439, 2018, Built up layers of free machine embroidery (Photo credit, Fraser James)" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(85, 85, 85); color: #555555; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;">Amanda : Moss and Lichen TQ 085 439, 2018, Built up layers of free machine embroidery (Photo credit, Fraser James)</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.199999809265137px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEimiLl0yJlV4KUyrOziHANvchX3ItWg2OaFY-gVKHdy4OSil6GDSA0vj60hFsHiAqtEP8Swo5zJJktjSD-ZqWb5yplC6Tjp3PqionJXzNXCntKQGzvamH6wP5hthJMRvzHOhGIMMC4NpdL5aa0qx4fKnUDJKSqcfMQb6_UWEY7H3qbkEn3tVKgDijxZ=s1500" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Amanda Cobbett: Moss, bark and Lichen detail TQ 085 44, 2018, Built up layers of free machine embroidery, materials used; paper, silk, thread, dye, backing cloth, (Photo credit, Fraser James)" border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1200" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEimiLl0yJlV4KUyrOziHANvchX3ItWg2OaFY-gVKHdy4OSil6GDSA0vj60hFsHiAqtEP8Swo5zJJktjSD-ZqWb5yplC6Tjp3PqionJXzNXCntKQGzvamH6wP5hthJMRvzHOhGIMMC4NpdL5aa0qx4fKnUDJKSqcfMQb6_UWEY7H3qbkEn3tVKgDijxZ=w512-h640" title="Amanda Cobbett: Moss, bark and Lichen detail TQ 085 44, 2018, Built up layers of free machine embroidery, materials used; paper, silk, thread, dye, backing cloth, (Photo credit, Fraser James)" width="512" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(85, 85, 85); color: #555555; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;">Amanda Cobbett: Moss, bark and Lichen detail TQ 085 44, 2018, Built up layers of free machine embroidery, materials used; paper, silk, thread, dye, backing cloth, (Photo credit, Fraser James)</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); clear: both; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.199999809265137px; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); clear: both; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: left;">Artist and researcher <a href="https://www.sarahhearn.art/#/in-between/">Sarah Hearn</a> makes artworks inspired by biology.<span face="Lato, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(54, 54, 54); color: #363636;"> She has made several lichen-inspired series of artworks. </span></div><div class="separator" style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); clear: both; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span face="Lato, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(54, 54, 54); color: #363636;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); clear: both; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: left;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjIelkbg1-vRZcyVtpZklDVpRLSrrG2YeQDnLULdG4oxkcR39Jcq3tat49q45bom89XRU2Mx4gyubftX12OrGZUg8zxnKpy63owJ8Cu4PedJXAVHBiFioX7n_otmO_1W0HZgRZL4WK12a_7nuHWDHl9VWMiev-3rIozHkzotXZtNEzh1-gxX50pOgCO=s2500" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1668" data-original-width="2500" height="428" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjIelkbg1-vRZcyVtpZklDVpRLSrrG2YeQDnLULdG4oxkcR39Jcq3tat49q45bom89XRU2Mx4gyubftX12OrGZUg8zxnKpy63owJ8Cu4PedJXAVHBiFioX7n_otmO_1W0HZgRZL4WK12a_7nuHWDHl9VWMiev-3rIozHkzotXZtNEzh1-gxX50pOgCO=w640-h428" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="image-title" face="proxima-nova" style="caret-color: rgb(87, 87, 87); color: #575757; font-size: 15px;"><strong>Sarah Hearn, Artificial Lichen Colony #8</strong></span><span face="proxima-nova" style="background-color: #fcfcfc; caret-color: rgb(87, 87, 87); color: #575757; font-size: 15px;"></span><span class="image-desc" face="proxima-nova" style="caret-color: rgb(87, 87, 87); color: #575757; font-size: 15px;"><p style="line-height: 1.8em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">10" x 15" cut photographs and watercolor, 2015</p></span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span face="Lato, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(54, 54, 54); color: #363636;"><br /></span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgKRuANEQU2cpIQ2B6K8niO5AfQSsEmbbanALVftxJkZRxLeRRZAx59CBiX2GSFrf69QUBrDNwIm6n3lYtwpKFL0zUlWbOFNWhIL4Vn4GBVQ7ydI5zHp-FYVHhFsEN9-cxqJEdII7PtROgFZ04BqQrHV5AKVIKQNrxqUTOVlebGoCwzrFp2ka_9qj_1=s3654" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3654" data-original-width="2500" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgKRuANEQU2cpIQ2B6K8niO5AfQSsEmbbanALVftxJkZRxLeRRZAx59CBiX2GSFrf69QUBrDNwIm6n3lYtwpKFL0zUlWbOFNWhIL4Vn4GBVQ7ydI5zHp-FYVHhFsEN9-cxqJEdII7PtROgFZ04BqQrHV5AKVIKQNrxqUTOVlebGoCwzrFp2ka_9qj_1=w438-h640" width="438" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="image-title" face="proxima-nova" style="caret-color: rgb(87, 87, 87); color: #575757; font-size: 15px;"><strong>Sarah Hearn, Artificial Lichen Colony Collage #5</strong></span><span face="proxima-nova" style="background-color: #fcfcfc; caret-color: rgb(87, 87, 87); color: #575757; font-size: 15px;"></span><span class="image-desc" face="proxima-nova" style="caret-color: rgb(87, 87, 87); color: #575757; font-size: 15px;"><p style="line-height: 1.8em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">42" x 24" cut photographs, watercolor and graphite, 2016 (private commission)</p></span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgmUFLGPp1841QjVvkyarfF6NWDGcd-gIg12vxAj_9Mk9Sif_NPcAYMzQkQ5vlASJ2fDFIj0H12BBxjlbpvALgMXQrDDGLqfY0DIAxmQmL_37K-jaC3J9qb0c9r9jwXd4WwSDtyzAaKUCyjuMIwfb7CU-uq32YkSfqNnWc1sSwqEopb0wl1xpVtCj4Z=s2100" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2100" data-original-width="1430" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgmUFLGPp1841QjVvkyarfF6NWDGcd-gIg12vxAj_9Mk9Sif_NPcAYMzQkQ5vlASJ2fDFIj0H12BBxjlbpvALgMXQrDDGLqfY0DIAxmQmL_37K-jaC3J9qb0c9r9jwXd4WwSDtyzAaKUCyjuMIwfb7CU-uq32YkSfqNnWc1sSwqEopb0wl1xpVtCj4Z=w436-h640" width="436" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="image-title" face="proxima-nova" style="caret-color: rgb(87, 87, 87); color: #575757; font-size: 15px;"><strong>Sarah Hearn, Artificial Lichen Colony #6</strong></span><span face="proxima-nova" style="background-color: #fcfcfc; caret-color: rgb(87, 87, 87); color: #575757; font-size: 15px;"></span><span class="image-desc" face="proxima-nova" style="caret-color: rgb(87, 87, 87); color: #575757; font-size: 15px;"><p style="line-height: 1.8em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">15" x 10" cut photographs and watercolor, 2016</p></span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /></div><h3 style="text-align: left;">There are whole worlds to contemplate in these extraordinary things if only we stop to look.</h3><div class="post hentry uncustomized-post-template" itemprop="blogPost" itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="http://schema.org/BlogPosting" style="margin: 0px 0px 45px; min-height: 0px; position: relative;"><br /></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black;" /></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7622472899382420396.post-60474658241999213512022-01-07T13:26:00.000-05:002022-01-07T13:26:05.021-05:00Insects in Textiles<p> Insects have been used as adornment and recreated in textiles for centuries. I'm sharing a smattering here of some beautiful contemporary textile art of insects.</p><p>Check out the sensitive textile nature art of <a href="https://www.annemiekemein.net.au">Dutch-born Australian artist Annemieke Mein here</a>. She works in various media including textiles, and the textile art includes these beautiful insects:</p><p><br /><a href="https://www.annemiekemein.net.au"></a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEip7Sy-y7Jl6k5_M9k5Hpmr-WiTKkxW9GDauK7CjRkSEsTT8nbXhJbgdseksGCaDq9QNVxZ2A-c3lGLzu33Iu-6gPB8RL7EF8QhYz7dwHTSCBlJf5Uh29fLEtTmy_msNWBxWtACXwAh9Lu4rEVholWYq_k44SHfp2YlOjcNkTvBVNU7jDw72lRw8lOt=s300" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Butterfly textile art by Annemieke Mein" border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="221" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEip7Sy-y7Jl6k5_M9k5Hpmr-WiTKkxW9GDauK7CjRkSEsTT8nbXhJbgdseksGCaDq9QNVxZ2A-c3lGLzu33Iu-6gPB8RL7EF8QhYz7dwHTSCBlJf5Uh29fLEtTmy_msNWBxWtACXwAh9Lu4rEVholWYq_k44SHfp2YlOjcNkTvBVNU7jDw72lRw8lOt=w295-h400" width="295" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhccVxtaL1ku-IWI4z1MzM7AXXfrKL2LhNCscaN_WSykto2-GKLbkJ8CN3Z2Jw4jlptiOkVV9gc-HG30X6cmlqYnAlt0DqSZ0Ca1Sp5uL7Dtx2xPRqxICbk49IvKxcL3CVLvoHilO9ctCp3NWC-rFV_iZz-0wjrtIQLgpjCe0qBBGxv3l4hJRdae0ra=s450" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Dragonfly textile art by Annemieke Mein" border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="322" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhccVxtaL1ku-IWI4z1MzM7AXXfrKL2LhNCscaN_WSykto2-GKLbkJ8CN3Z2Jw4jlptiOkVV9gc-HG30X6cmlqYnAlt0DqSZ0Ca1Sp5uL7Dtx2xPRqxICbk49IvKxcL3CVLvoHilO9ctCp3NWC-rFV_iZz-0wjrtIQLgpjCe0qBBGxv3l4hJRdae0ra=w286-h400" width="286" /></a></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjrHGkmzgIaGg04i5mZpstnwHKERej98RJSGYhJxVM-3AWIPda6jZ3bQr1KL9yASwKgty29Wq9-ssuwjNcLOt81gBFirbqwNhA4fpd7kKczTDcc5JtCG0XFtJA-h20LgVsf-fXTR8UlC55OgJ3qYAIwlzQHiBmeYQDMybGRBQj8TGhTSu0IllupGKuW=s1280" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Butterfly textile art by Annemieke Mein" border="0" data-original-height="853" data-original-width="1280" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjrHGkmzgIaGg04i5mZpstnwHKERej98RJSGYhJxVM-3AWIPda6jZ3bQr1KL9yASwKgty29Wq9-ssuwjNcLOt81gBFirbqwNhA4fpd7kKczTDcc5JtCG0XFtJA-h20LgVsf-fXTR8UlC55OgJ3qYAIwlzQHiBmeYQDMybGRBQj8TGhTSu0IllupGKuW=w400-h266" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Textile insects by Annemieke Mein</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><p></p>
Born in England and based in Kenya, artist <a href="https://www.facebook.com/sophiestandingart/photos">Sophie Standing</a> uses textile art to portray the wildlife she sees. I absolutely love this bee:
<div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEimoOSDaI-EJdZnefVxvYunlyEsch0YzZj-SEaDbpT72GQvLf3Uscjw-O2ZDJS9mlvP6i0EAr1ljjI52Los9Q-bY_KaV19vf26egwg11VxXYKCTbZKclc-4T_yx_9Z5vr0hTgF5kewgf1nN66K4P0eI6JmcaT_eVk61xsLYpe7hPFxjER_I4EpsrArD=s1072" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Sophie Standing Bee" border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="1072" height="478" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEimoOSDaI-EJdZnefVxvYunlyEsch0YzZj-SEaDbpT72GQvLf3Uscjw-O2ZDJS9mlvP6i0EAr1ljjI52Los9Q-bY_KaV19vf26egwg11VxXYKCTbZKclc-4T_yx_9Z5vr0hTgF5kewgf1nN66K4P0eI6JmcaT_eVk61xsLYpe7hPFxjER_I4EpsrArD=w640-h478" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bee textile art by <a href="https://www.facebook.com/sophiestandingart/photos">Sophie Standing</a></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div>She does a lot of the African megafauna, but this dung beetle is charming:</div><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjv8QqJfmK4dSyUMyUlt2C1l2wbs42WMFu7QR8LUnq_Dqv7eCo_I209rG0g9bFyfx5e6IL6lLvm_BO_stGjwNqxxh0ad3UcgWLMMQb1zebFyNCG-mavQvMFGiVFzWSCDMJAGN9nP8wwqpPgRcbTTjUQAjIrQ7DMnMCpkFoRXJC9ceuLPWQE3qv5oqu2=s700" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Dung Beetle textile art by Sophie Standing" border="0" data-original-height="525" data-original-width="700" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjv8QqJfmK4dSyUMyUlt2C1l2wbs42WMFu7QR8LUnq_Dqv7eCo_I209rG0g9bFyfx5e6IL6lLvm_BO_stGjwNqxxh0ad3UcgWLMMQb1zebFyNCG-mavQvMFGiVFzWSCDMJAGN9nP8wwqpPgRcbTTjUQAjIrQ7DMnMCpkFoRXJC9ceuLPWQE3qv5oqu2=w640-h480" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dung Beetle textile art by Sophie Standing</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div>Michele Carragher is a London costume embroidery for film and TV who has done extraordinary work (for shows like Game of Thrones). Some of her insect-themed work: </div><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><a href="https://www.michelecarragherembroidery.com/trace-gallery?pgid=ktrsi497-e65e3578-ed3b-40e9-970a-8f2e36c6d190"><img alt="The Head Artefact, Hairpin" border="0" data-original-height="945" data-original-width="530" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgJ4q2490G3qh956IN2IWoLMPRWP4ft7naSleU7gJmzsITUlcnSrDZHhooAwkpJlAh1UqayqeM34TgoRVltr3pVuv4d_LkQfg3xm5lqFk6PwZzgFnjMg2IRqMERcZMcxfHDh8doZra5Arl5NidXdGLCn42-8U0vB5Sy24w_sYoBzf6pgmvlmfm5Nsxg=w358-h640" width="358" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.michelecarragherembroidery.com/trace-gallery?pgid=ktrsi497-e65e3578-ed3b-40e9-970a-8f2e36c6d190">The Head Artfact, Hairpin, (c) MCE 2021</a></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><a href="https://www.michelecarragherembroidery.com/trace-gallery?pgid=ktrsi497-b89006f7-f692-47e0-b32e-8fdb7b58c17a"><img alt="The Hand Artefact, Gauntlet" border="0" data-original-height="934" data-original-width="524" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhmshMoUycjOEr-0s61X1sgmosAwKAeygIHTJ9puN0k2Z8VO0JezYPpN4hZlT8dBfloOPnwzAS0rFZnrRhwOYVLvqu-jjeJ8-KGizPtjE_Jnw1XYjrJ5QYjkYVB1_HorRB9XBXgypThf0mPltGiquhV5lPsLL-n2CxbHrbuwz8_TWKN8mnnqv_z_pHm=w360-h640" width="360" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.michelecarragherembroidery.com/trace-gallery?pgid=ktrsi497-b89006f7-f692-47e0-b32e-8fdb7b58c17a">The Hand Artefact, Gauntlet detail cicada motif, (c) MCE 2021</a></td></tr></tbody></table><div><br /></div><br /><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh0ZF7cWl6JQmPd1-pqE5-cssSDoAjQDv7b23_gxdA0o3CeTOcqU1ZGT2P_MV140ggwNLohoT9s0UcFAFB82i90XQfNYRAAcRkFPGKjSQXM4Vm6l2zDIjSen0BL7YM4aXo2iuU2RSBO2RkwMxXRvHjuYjFbNXAoTjfZ0U8lO9xydu-pCvxNn43iomXx=s450" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Cicada detail from Game of Thrones costume embroidery by MCE" border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="300" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh0ZF7cWl6JQmPd1-pqE5-cssSDoAjQDv7b23_gxdA0o3CeTOcqU1ZGT2P_MV140ggwNLohoT9s0UcFAFB82i90XQfNYRAAcRkFPGKjSQXM4Vm6l2zDIjSen0BL7YM4aXo2iuU2RSBO2RkwMxXRvHjuYjFbNXAoTjfZ0U8lO9xydu-pCvxNn43iomXx=w266-h400" width="266" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Detail of Game of Thrones costume embroidery by Michele Carragher</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div>You can find the delightful work of UK embroiderer Humayrah Bint Altaf on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/theoldesewingroom/">instagram</a> and <a href="https://www.etsy.com/ca/shop/TheOldeSewingRoom">Etsy</a> as The Olde Sewing Room. </div><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><a href="https://www.etsy.com/ca/listing/724276917/she-wished-for-wings-papilio-demoleous?ref=shop_home_recs_1"><img alt="The Olde Sewing Room butterfly" border="0" data-original-height="1968" data-original-width="1588" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhFHCfKU1fOvsFgRvn3vbGc7we7W4fKL2b87Lb8TJvBANHe8tiIWN0__JFsd1dHz_issv_kQornlHY7mvmsYRyq9BlZVDkhWA850FBUP8l0hSaBrpK2JiMRQdyi3yoKNA7KPez8oucRFCbuMZuXa29DmwvMeZ-zazgZukAfpZhN3ozpOd3Dc1fzsPsi=w516-h640" width="516" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.etsy.com/ca/listing/724276917/she-wished-for-wings-papilio-demoleous?ref=shop_home_recs_1">She wished for wings, Papilio Demoleous Swallowtail Butterfly with Goldwork Embroidery</a><h1 class="wt-text-body-03 wt-line-height-tight wt-break-word" data-buy-box-listing-title="true" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Guardian-EgypTT, Charter, "Charter Bitstream", Cambria, "Noto Serif Light", "Droid Serif", Georgia, serif; font-size: 26px; font-weight: 300; letter-spacing: 0.35px; line-height: 32px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word !important; text-align: start; word-break: break-word !important; word-wrap: break-word !important;"><a href="https://www.etsy.com/ca/listing/724276917/she-wished-for-wings-papilio-demoleous?ref=shop_home_recs_1"><br /></a></h1></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><a href="https://www.etsy.com/ca/listing/1068376133/limited-edition-goldwork-scarab-beetle?ref=shop_home_recs_7&sca=1"><img alt="Goldwork scarab beetle by The Olde Sewing Shop" border="0" data-original-height="980" data-original-width="794" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi_Czg6j3o-cdJK2WtkmuvRJwlLmw8vDTmEimwIcC8MwM4YcLrUyVve2Ro6Qqeq-eZ8gWlXIYYW2s5fgpkyFwgKRs-sql7Va0_yBmOY9z_oyQ3_MVwOePdX2F57RsAtbgLBv3IsdfwoIusGVzvSFuW55QMyPP24oiWTFuRHA313q-cXxMO1eQos4Tc_=w324-h400" width="324" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.etsy.com/ca/listing/1068376133/limited-edition-goldwork-scarab-beetle?ref=shop_home_recs_7&sca=1">Goldwork scarab beetle with crystals and antique wires</a></td></tr></tbody></table><div><br /></div><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><a href="https://www.etsy.com/ca/listing/725150865/madeleine-n-something-that-triggers?ref=shop_home_recs_5&sca=1"><img alt="Goldwork dragonfly by The Olde Sewing Shop" border="0" data-original-height="990" data-original-width="794" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgmi8fshq2V8tQVMKDwUD0CbmgsBmiMkjkAdST8WGgtUvU5rOrSTRD1pdHn87U3Uz-otMFfw8Ob14lHbW_992aeG-zj3aEuizwagLORiGNN2MDtnZEqsQ4yNpIxLHVJ-3-L0aSNX646WSCUfiO2SU9PhgHzgGHntd90H-hBHyxkbSk0bR6cEWQlfu1_=w321-h400" width="321" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.etsy.com/ca/listing/725150865/madeleine-n-something-that-triggers?ref=shop_home_recs_5&sca=1">Madelaine (n.), something that triggers memories or nostalgia - gold work dragonfly embroidery</a></td></tr></tbody></table><br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7622472899382420396.post-73127340432721065492021-06-18T14:53:00.004-04:002021-06-18T14:53:53.645-04:00Historical physics and astronomy as .gifs<p> </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZcAqvM9J0jMjE3FVin5yHWwEzhoMYtd_QqS_r0_j1FocLimLG0UEyWAZuPgJwo0W5FagvtFqiWbuQTwmQZipXaf0sQuQZI_bBHq8qKeiP8wndvQxktSZU3zOUbs4WD1tN8yC073JE7b8/s500/tumblr_o5xrzt7vB91s83h8do1_r1_500.gif" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Galilei, Galileo, 1564-1642. Istoria e dimostrazioni intorno alle macchie solari e loro accidenti, 1613." border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="500" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZcAqvM9J0jMjE3FVin5yHWwEzhoMYtd_QqS_r0_j1FocLimLG0UEyWAZuPgJwo0W5FagvtFqiWbuQTwmQZipXaf0sQuQZI_bBHq8qKeiP8wndvQxktSZU3zOUbs4WD1tN8yC073JE7b8/w400-h400/tumblr_o5xrzt7vB91s83h8do1_r1_500.gif" title="Galilei, Galileo, 1564-1642. Istoria e dimostrazioni intorno alle macchie solari e loro accidenti, 1613." width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Galilei, Galileo, 1564-1642. <i>Istoria e dimostrazioni intorno alle macchie solari e loro accidenti</i>, 1613.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p></p><p>Put Galileo's 1612 drawings of sunspots together and what do you get (via <a href="https://houghtonlib.tumblr.com/post/143113959256/galileo-didnt-know-it-at-the-time-but-his">Houghton Library, Harvard University</a>)? </p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJFHrXNkcvK4tSlAjIxw-Oh1V7PFxga-9oEJpBa-rmfEMl782BgJ7F9WsDtrVHb1ITT7ym-s5S58U-oSI5GTIbX9p0pPua1DB7xIbOfp-qT4anANhVjS8CFSzPaQte5zbRoPbJTkX4Z7c/s400/tumblr_nanwu1S35H1tedol3o1_400.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJFHrXNkcvK4tSlAjIxw-Oh1V7PFxga-9oEJpBa-rmfEMl782BgJ7F9WsDtrVHb1ITT7ym-s5S58U-oSI5GTIbX9p0pPua1DB7xIbOfp-qT4anANhVjS8CFSzPaQte5zbRoPbJTkX4Z7c/s320/tumblr_nanwu1S35H1tedol3o1_400.webp" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlHycw28a6GRP8_I5Ya8kNtwox45uTc3W_JfmLiNIU_qQwfa1-tr1KImzfYLODGERdKH0mJO058D58Q6n75YmnYt8lOMBtmmEfCv57m_rqkegsRM6Ehw-vTlQ0tS_aIehf2vCG8lU9MAY/s500/tumblr_nanwu1S35H1tedol3o2_500-1.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="375" data-original-width="500" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlHycw28a6GRP8_I5Ya8kNtwox45uTc3W_JfmLiNIU_qQwfa1-tr1KImzfYLODGERdKH0mJO058D58Q6n75YmnYt8lOMBtmmEfCv57m_rqkegsRM6Ehw-vTlQ0tS_aIehf2vCG8lU9MAY/s320/tumblr_nanwu1S35H1tedol3o2_500-1.webp" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p>Gifs taken from a <a href="http://ri-science.tumblr.com/post/92738177577/even-william-lawrence-bragg-youngest-ever-nobel">1929</a>
film by Nobel laureate William Lawrence Bragg demonstrating his research into surface tension and spectroscopic
analysis of light reflected from a soap film. (via the <a href="https://ri-science.tumblr.com/post/99055139037/gifs-taken-from-a-1929-william-lawrence-bragg-the">Royal Institution</a> tumblr)</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiF4NiCHSEEUHNKJXUUqi9n4iKv2vSaqwM_2icHhHUhKRuVLDNhZdUHiQA4YhqFd-p0oVoJH1bEpRopjz5ZytgH-LfLEZwoF0Rk5qp6azcFB2YV-LF_w6JQfutjwUjNpiY2JxFXclgK4sg/s266/200.webp" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiF4NiCHSEEUHNKJXUUqi9n4iKv2vSaqwM_2icHhHUhKRuVLDNhZdUHiQA4YhqFd-p0oVoJH1bEpRopjz5ZytgH-LfLEZwoF0Rk5qp6azcFB2YV-LF_w6JQfutjwUjNpiY2JxFXclgK4sg/s0/200.webp" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">NASA imagery of Pioneer via the <a href="https://giphy.com/usnationalarchives/nasaspace-exploration">US National Archives on GIPHY</a><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMZwsfLHUGC0FyIAl455wxVDwQKtA8FK612oZdf9632S1EdzFtyOHYCJ_gZ7nHS6tuOZd5bvHWNdT6gf7pwjVGZ0RMWW2EqkwQtJEUpfr4HjS1t9EXD4OBAmXcBsB1nnKOKeAq7dgS8kg/s894/tumblr_n7f7lpjgnH1rn3gulo1_640.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="This work from the Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology, Celestial scenery, or, The Wonders of the planetary system displayed (1845) was written by Thomas Dick, a Scottish minister and science educator." border="0" data-original-height="894" data-original-width="500" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMZwsfLHUGC0FyIAl455wxVDwQKtA8FK612oZdf9632S1EdzFtyOHYCJ_gZ7nHS6tuOZd5bvHWNdT6gf7pwjVGZ0RMWW2EqkwQtJEUpfr4HjS1t9EXD4OBAmXcBsB1nnKOKeAq7dgS8kg/w224-h400/tumblr_n7f7lpjgnH1rn3gulo1_640.webp" title="This work from the Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology, Celestial scenery, or, The Wonders of the planetary system displayed (1845) was written by Thomas Dick, a Scottish minister and science educator." width="224" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This work from the <a href="https://href.li/?http://library.si.edu/libraries/dibner" target="_blank">Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology</a>, <a href="https://href.li/?http://library.si.edu/digital-library/book/celestialscener00dick" target="_blank">Celestial scenery, or, The Wonders of the planetary system displayed</a> (1845) was written by Thomas Dick, a Scottish minister and science educator. (via the <a href="https://smithsonianlibraries.tumblr.com/post/89477364015/happy-summer-solstice-this-work-from-the-dibner">Smithsonian</a>)<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>And of course <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eadweard_Muybridge">Eadweard Muybridge</a>:<br /></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxCIa7PmjuIykiGZq3K4nuB8gMdcoQjXUdhppnH03i2V4tRkWdNmCAB0tPQfKCXPZPFk1D86pXm7ncwutpK5GyuzPDgLz-j8ZzMsXtJ9DN3rOYv_0JHJLIqZ__r3CMywCkQdd3dsM71ZA/s300/1-AlcmRXQKIaO97gk1elYQkQ.gif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxCIa7PmjuIykiGZq3K4nuB8gMdcoQjXUdhppnH03i2V4tRkWdNmCAB0tPQfKCXPZPFk1D86pXm7ncwutpK5GyuzPDgLz-j8ZzMsXtJ9DN3rOYv_0JHJLIqZ__r3CMywCkQdd3dsM71ZA/s0/1-AlcmRXQKIaO97gk1elYQkQ.gif" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7622472899382420396.post-21412424642995142502021-06-09T09:45:00.001-04:002021-06-09T09:48:55.126-04:00Mildred Thompson and the Art of the Cosmos<p><br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsHxrcMzyjU6HO3WKjBwdqz38LeF5NUk7PWDIzDYtQDGVKYHZoxwyztk556x13yZL47NM9M1cRK3yQxucw4homFd6oH-tV6ukMm1pYusIdFVgmCVDeHI-ZFlIt5TrtHhxGlt-Yr_JGCqM/s800/MT+Magnetic+Fields.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Mildred Thompson 'Magnetic Fields' 1990, oil on canvas, 70.5 x 150” (triptych)" border="0" data-original-height="372" data-original-width="800" height="298" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsHxrcMzyjU6HO3WKjBwdqz38LeF5NUk7PWDIzDYtQDGVKYHZoxwyztk556x13yZL47NM9M1cRK3yQxucw4homFd6oH-tV6ukMm1pYusIdFVgmCVDeHI-ZFlIt5TrtHhxGlt-Yr_JGCqM/w640-h298/MT+Magnetic+Fields.jpg" title="Mildred Thompson 'Magnetic Fields' 1990, oil on canvas, 70.5 x 150” (triptych)" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mildred Thompson 'Magnetic Fields' 1990, oil on canvas, 70.5 x 150” (triptych)</td></tr></tbody></table> <p></p><p>American artist <b>Mildred Jean Thompson</b> (March 12, 1936 – September 1, 2003) worked in many media, including printmaking, sculpture, painting, drawing and photography, as well as a writer. Critics see the influence of German Expressionism, West African textiles, Islamic architecture, spiritualism, metaphysics music and particularly jazz as her work grew increasingly abstract and improvisational. All these things are important, but her interest in physics and astronomy also shines through in the art about music and sound, to the later work specifically about mathematics, magnetic fields, radiation, particles and planetary systems. Thompson said, “My work in the visual arts is, and always has been, a
continuous search for understanding. It is an expression of purpose and
reflects a personal interpretation of the universe.” </p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-R85ar3Sg8UY5zG05FXVuYapl0KHEiBRrEPIdx96sVl6PDm0EUrvgMY2d-2kkUFXyn2IH1E8JpagpIE2gSitFrmUr80t9kyjEjn8ZnPtFhPfzthxw03C_C5dFf9uqE-G8SORSQ6tBLGU/s800/String+Theory_orangegreen.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="545" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-R85ar3Sg8UY5zG05FXVuYapl0KHEiBRrEPIdx96sVl6PDm0EUrvgMY2d-2kkUFXyn2IH1E8JpagpIE2gSitFrmUr80t9kyjEjn8ZnPtFhPfzthxw03C_C5dFf9uqE-G8SORSQ6tBLGU/w436-h640/String+Theory_orangegreen.jpg" width="436" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">
<p class="desc">Mildred Thompsn, String Theory Series, 1999, acrylic on vinyl, 61.5 x 46”</p></td></tr></tbody></table><br />Finding her ability to show as a Black woman in the US was hampered by racism and sexism, she spent a decade in Germany. She had studied at Art Academy of Hamburg and returned to live and work in the Rhineland town of Düren in the 60s. By the 70s her work had become completely abstract. From 1975 to 1986 she lived in Tampa, Washington D.C, Paris, before settling in Atlanta, where she wrote for the periodical <i>Art Papers</i>, taught at the Atlanta College of Art and worked as an artist for the rest of her life. Thompson explained, "My work has to do with the cosmos and how it affects us," to <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essence_(magazine)" title="Essence (magazine)">Essence</a></i> magazine in 1990. <p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1M1n2ikSTxJnAM_lNTf-46g2ZY6gFsXI7QHNEZtiCV1zVQoPsHJM1_Fq1IwtHl5S7oVWUsLnb7RrZQSzRb81xguxomK36ypbZg-5vIDW6hBzAl5CwuIiNj0kL7OXx1vr3FRBhahNgpEI/s800/HelioCentric3.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="661" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1M1n2ikSTxJnAM_lNTf-46g2ZY6gFsXI7QHNEZtiCV1zVQoPsHJM1_Fq1IwtHl5S7oVWUsLnb7RrZQSzRb81xguxomK36ypbZg-5vIDW6hBzAl5CwuIiNj0kL7OXx1vr3FRBhahNgpEI/w528-h640/HelioCentric3.jpg" width="528" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">
<p class="desc">Mildred Thompson, Helio Centric III, 1993, intaglio vitreograph, 40" x 30" each <br />(image size 30" x 24")</p></td></tr></tbody></table><br /> <p></p><p>For me the Helios Centric series evokes the swirling chaos of the nascent solar system, as masses spun in a disc around our sun, colliding and aggregating over time into a string of planets and smaller bodies. She did not make literal interpretations of sound, forces, space or any underlying physics of the universe but expressed these concepts imagination, emotion, colour and rhythm. There's a great deal of joy to be found in her work. She explored the universe from the smallest scales of her Wave Function, Radiation and String Theory series to the astronamical scale of our solar system and beyond and what she saw and expressed was quite beautiful.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIOMxLQm8pYYXz53b9aR5JBA_IeeqvTqMF226ku3StHK8NUdz1X0Jjvu9G0RQmm4vAf5-9AnhPjALn3QeaReBy9fof0P0_0a-WZeyEhEPLCBlmv1sqJXsqhmDZp6V6_LHk5gBsbm-4zzA/s720/03c4685eabc7b4f0e4f735301264cced.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="570" data-original-width="720" height="506" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIOMxLQm8pYYXz53b9aR5JBA_IeeqvTqMF226ku3StHK8NUdz1X0Jjvu9G0RQmm4vAf5-9AnhPjALn3QeaReBy9fof0P0_0a-WZeyEhEPLCBlmv1sqJXsqhmDZp6V6_LHk5gBsbm-4zzA/w640-h506/03c4685eabc7b4f0e4f735301264cced.jpeg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mildred Thompson<br />
<i>Radiation Explorations 8</i>, 1994<br />
Oil on canvas<br />
87.5 x 110.1 inches (222.3 x 279.7 cm) overall</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> </td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="649" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjITGqyQ1GO-W5cfFx1D7coUoFXlAtNxnZ-O0qqtwh-M-bUT6ydUPz6pvRUDEDJRqsV7QAaiadN-bIwjdaFSoN7PRYJ65CNifhdjJVgUlVthLZlCsZ1a5fMwK-s-m2zmI6-ABhzGS1ERQ0/w520-h640/WaveFunction3.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="520" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">
<p class="desc">Wave Function III, 1993, intaglio vitreograph, 30" x 22.5" (image size 20" x 16")</p></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: center;"></div>
<p class="desc"><br /></p><p class="desc"><b>References & Further Info <br /></b></p><p class="desc"><a href="http://MildredThompson.org"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span>MildredThompson.org</span></span></a></p><p class="desc"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span>Deanna Sirlin, </span><span><span><a href="https://www.theartsection.com/mildred-thompson">Melissa Messina and the Mildred Thompson Legacy Project</a>, interview on The Arts Section</span></span></span></p><p class="desc"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span><span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mildred_Thompson">Mildred Thompson</a>, on Wikipedia.com </span></span></span><b> </b></p>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7622472899382420396.post-2113645091155848372021-06-03T09:50:00.142-04:002021-06-03T12:11:15.947-04:00Owl, Pussycat, Scientific Illustration and Other Nonsense by Edward Lear<br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIy62XiZj0QinFX_xm2tUOhCyx4zq52ZVUDgNq_mT0QsMZWAyGjP3cSchSEhhsQn2rWYCZPi58aJd4SjUX3OMUYN0BoFaJzYgGb8xtJIKPFrpsRr6nuTbnvoidNWF3ngXnW-igfgvpbkA/s472/dca0e33a-6e04-4664-a0db-8f6258f9c780-gould-j-birds-of-europe-1832-7-vol4-eastern-great-horned-owl.jpg" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="472" data-original-width="310" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIy62XiZj0QinFX_xm2tUOhCyx4zq52ZVUDgNq_mT0QsMZWAyGjP3cSchSEhhsQn2rWYCZPi58aJd4SjUX3OMUYN0BoFaJzYgGb8xtJIKPFrpsRr6nuTbnvoidNWF3ngXnW-igfgvpbkA/s400/dca0e33a-6e04-4664-a0db-8f6258f9c780-gould-j-birds-of-europe-1832-7-vol4-eastern-great-horned-owl.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">owl illustration by Edward Lear<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p><br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrA9WgB7rk-yreRj2VwZlmchw5wS6Yhx-nhN2_rc2_IjftsHObSJmJuWwzSqsgi3HBH5v7TsWm4tD30rmSKkLnbMeWuLi91-y5S6zYXENBjcTPDeCydNv5AFYegbXSvsNrK9RElJyaKFE/s619/Screen+Shot+2021-06-03+at+10.11.09+AM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="374" data-original-width="619" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrA9WgB7rk-yreRj2VwZlmchw5wS6Yhx-nhN2_rc2_IjftsHObSJmJuWwzSqsgi3HBH5v7TsWm4tD30rmSKkLnbMeWuLi91-y5S6zYXENBjcTPDeCydNv5AFYegbXSvsNrK9RElJyaKFE/s320/Screen+Shot+2021-06-03+at+10.11.09+AM.png" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Edward Lear's illustration of a cat, Private collection promised to the Ashmolean Museum<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p><i><br />The Owl and the Pussy-cat went to sea </i></p><p><i>In a beautiful pea-green boat, </i></p><p><i>They took some honey, and plenty of money, </i></p><p><i>Wrapped up in a five-pound note. </i></p><p><i>The Owl looked up to the stars above, </i></p><p><i>And sang to a small guitar, </i></p><p><i>‘O lovely Pussy! O Pussy, my love, </i></p><p><i>What a beautiful Pussy you are, </i></p><p><i>You are, </i></p><p><i>You are! </i></p><p><i>What a beautiful Pussy you are!’</i></p><blockquote></blockquote><p>
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</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5Ao8A4S-o2oLagOUgMKy0puFUW1kAoV4_Pa4pbx7-T3IusnQPd6XwG-cjctGzQAE9vgT4Ie5PqRoG43JwgLx0oj3QXP-__oO1qEK6rxGP4hN6JuNb3TYnQvmttvuro041xXUOvWHxH9c/s690/the-owl-and-the-pussycat.jpg" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="462" data-original-width="690" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5Ao8A4S-o2oLagOUgMKy0puFUW1kAoV4_Pa4pbx7-T3IusnQPd6XwG-cjctGzQAE9vgT4Ie5PqRoG43JwgLx0oj3QXP-__oO1qEK6rxGP4hN6JuNb3TYnQvmttvuro041xXUOvWHxH9c/s320/the-owl-and-the-pussycat.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Owl and the Pussycat by Edward Lear<br /></td></tr></tbody></table>
<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNaCaB04GjZyV3zKNOT3PG1KIngbzYbQtP5vxxAXJIFPqDQ7WXvvHmsfrzJLg0_bqaU8jv5zfeXiPv5h8W3DTpOwTzdpiQ_WOMMWhNQTlMB3vInHz16mmZoIArRXXL76ir9D0dC4cQjrc/s660/D67R9471_0.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="474" data-original-width="660" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNaCaB04GjZyV3zKNOT3PG1KIngbzYbQtP5vxxAXJIFPqDQ7WXvvHmsfrzJLg0_bqaU8jv5zfeXiPv5h8W3DTpOwTzdpiQ_WOMMWhNQTlMB3vInHz16mmZoIArRXXL76ir9D0dC4cQjrc/s320/D67R9471_0.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">illustration of a lioness by Edward Lear<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p><br /></p><p>Poet Edward Lear (1812–1888), remembered affectionately for his delightful nonsense poems like 'The Owl and the Pussycat' or 'The Jumblies' is less well remembered for his exceptional, carefully observed scientific illustration but he was a talented and sought-after natural historian and illustrator. He believed in working from life, if not in the field, at least observing animals in zoos and menageries, rather than basing drawings of flora and fauna on museum collections of dead animals. He wrote “I am never pleased with a drawing unless I make it from life,” in 1831. He befriended zookepers to gain access and make measurements of animals; his work was praised by Charles Darwin and John James Audubon. He apprenticed with scientist Prideaux Selby, gaining confidence in his bird illustraions. His work shows a real understanding of how animals move and their 'personalities'which can be missing from work produced from drawing dead specimen. His first publication was a book about parrots, <i>Illustrations of the Family Psittacidae or Parrots</i>, published when he was only 19. It was the first book published about a family of birds. Then he worked for scientific illustrators John and Elizabeth Gould, helping him illustrate the birds of Europe and her illustrate birds for Darwin’s <i>Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle</i>, as well as producing illustrations for William Buckland, Thomas Bell, and William Jardine. His careful observation and illustrations lead Lear to identify several new species and several are named after him like Lear's macaw (<i>Anodorhynchus leari</i>), a large blue Brazilian parrot.</p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgilvhy0HbhKIOCgatFQ2-pDI1ANWcTNsiqwnqyczUvPLcxHYE8ksSnKAV2244LtLo__93TO9MWD4z8rQWTpJE1lq2VMtovP8JOH7VvvGexRACoJpHJsGTvNWNUgABrIzEBoyI_Pymmq3c/s800/7881364128_57864793c9_c.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="518" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgilvhy0HbhKIOCgatFQ2-pDI1ANWcTNsiqwnqyczUvPLcxHYE8ksSnKAV2244LtLo__93TO9MWD4z8rQWTpJE1lq2VMtovP8JOH7VvvGexRACoJpHJsGTvNWNUgABrIzEBoyI_Pymmq3c/w414-h640/7881364128_57864793c9_c.jpg" width="414" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="inline embed embed-media"><span class="caption">Culminated Toucan, <i>Ramphastos culminatus</i> (mid 1830s).<br />Plate 1 in Lear's Monograph of the Family of Toucans.</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7v18lfSS8PZX_VnYJ9YylkgpW16IsXaOrIfXvh0ytHyZwBdcOylPKNPP9G6Zka_-cb1IYT6h_ZsKj77mHlwI54aHtocP5d54S7KPmlZRr28oxEtBll4OtJBSIhdoFi6Yw5WP5rHNTUj8/s1280/Illustrations_of_the_family_of_Psittacid%25C5%2593%252C_or_parrots_%2528Plate_24%2529_%25288116344491%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7v18lfSS8PZX_VnYJ9YylkgpW16IsXaOrIfXvh0ytHyZwBdcOylPKNPP9G6Zka_-cb1IYT6h_ZsKj77mHlwI54aHtocP5d54S7KPmlZRr28oxEtBll4OtJBSIhdoFi6Yw5WP5rHNTUj8/w640-h360/Illustrations_of_the_family_of_Psittacid%25C5%2593%252C_or_parrots_%2528Plate_24%2529_%25288116344491%2529.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div class="article-caption-pre-rd article-hero-img-caption">
A Stanley parakeet, one of 42 plates in Edward Lear's <i>Illustrations of the Family of Psittacidae, or Parrots</i>. <a class="caption-credit" href="https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/61906#/summary" target="_blank">Biodiversity Heritage Library/CC BY 2.0</a>
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</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p></p><p>His nonsense poems came after, and in a sense, out of his scientific illustration. He was commissioned to illustrate the collection of parots in the menagerie of naturalist Edward Smith-Stanley, the 13th Earl of Derby at his home Knowsley Hall near Liverpool. He was treated like the help, and ate with the servants in the basement, but became a great hit with Lord Derby's grandchildren and began entertaining them with cartoons and limericks and this was how he began creating work for children. The Earl began inviting him to eat upstairs with guests and other nobles. He meanwhile gained a real reputation for his painting and even became the personal drawing instructor to Queen Victoria. So when he first began published <i>Book of Nonsense</i>, in 1846, he used a pen name to avoid tarnishing his reputation as a serious painter and scientific illustrator. He revealed his name only after his poems became a great success, a great surprise to him. This was a great boon to him as his ailing health and eyesight meant he could no longer work as a zoological draughtsman, and this new success came when he really needed it. <br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRTWlVSMxbpjVLeXk0q5BkYnlqd2rmBy70_dNPt4VNzXU4aQfYWR_qjoRYSu59qNBC9skHutSZrD4veHa4Pe3xaO0_sIOIdGaz2lwRSDzMataOPzCwJwiWMonrXaJqOMHY1FV40pT7VmI/s500/201211281825299475-2013-01SciObsPhillipsFA.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="313" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRTWlVSMxbpjVLeXk0q5BkYnlqd2rmBy70_dNPt4VNzXU4aQfYWR_qjoRYSu59qNBC9skHutSZrD4veHa4Pe3xaO0_sIOIdGaz2lwRSDzMataOPzCwJwiWMonrXaJqOMHY1FV40pT7VmI/w250-h400/201211281825299475-2013-01SciObsPhillipsFA.jpg" width="250" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">His scientific illustration and nonsense come together delightfully in his “Nonsense Botany” series, like this <i>Piggiwiggia Pyramidalis</i>! (<b>Image courtesy of Houghton Library, Harvard University. MS Eng 797.1 [20])</b></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPjIB60HWBTQoomM1JhGWUw-jbper-hKyErNqH3ISnAuhcKJm0HRtuRHDz4tuGSxtvvi_tC-wVHp3-__R61ELTZEPOdEcXC3UWR5cd3flY7LUD_pKcIt2Iq9zRlgoN9vZhbs0r1cVaw8E/s800/C0190382-Nonsense_Botany_by_Edward_Lear.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="634" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPjIB60HWBTQoomM1JhGWUw-jbper-hKyErNqH3ISnAuhcKJm0HRtuRHDz4tuGSxtvvi_tC-wVHp3-__R61ELTZEPOdEcXC3UWR5cd3flY7LUD_pKcIt2Iq9zRlgoN9vZhbs0r1cVaw8E/w318-h400/C0190382-Nonsense_Botany_by_Edward_Lear.jpg" width="318" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Edward Lear's <i>Cockatooca Superba</i> from the Nonsense Botany series<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIZlWqCPkoMg1YZxzuSddYrAfUxptzzgCzBlelJjAERMwFPJcJxDTVsKAqElBekYb3gk3LaME0RMqq5TipqERmgWgby5xm3MTJg43dpSLginp_kWJIU_zXvRn9DALF1BlRDRNpQNfkpL4/s800/C0190378-Nonsense_Botany_by_Edward_Lear.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="633" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIZlWqCPkoMg1YZxzuSddYrAfUxptzzgCzBlelJjAERMwFPJcJxDTVsKAqElBekYb3gk3LaME0RMqq5TipqERmgWgby5xm3MTJg43dpSLginp_kWJIU_zXvRn9DALF1BlRDRNpQNfkpL4/w316-h400/C0190378-Nonsense_Botany_by_Edward_Lear.jpg" width="316" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Edward Lear's <i>Crabbia Horrida</i> from the Nonsense Botany series<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><b>References</b></span></p><h5><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span class="bold"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Beth Marie Mole, Poetry and Pictures, circa 1830, <i>The Scientist</i>, November 2012.</span><br /></span></span></h5><p><span style="font-size: xx-small;">GrrlScientist, Edward Lear featured at the Royal Society, The Guardian blog site, 2016 </span></p><p><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Donna Ferguson, How Edward Lear's artistic genius led to the Owl and the Pussycat, The Guardian, Sunday, 31 January, 2021. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Anna Lena Phillips, Serious Nonsense, American Scientist,.com </span></p><p><span style="font-size: xx-small;">'Edward Lear', illusrtaion History resource from the Norman Rockwell Museum</span></p><p><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Art, Nonsense and Science, The Biologist 64(6) p24-27</span></p><p> </p><p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7622472899382420396.post-53578421697613930522021-05-21T15:13:00.002-04:002021-05-21T15:13:40.316-04:00Make like a cicada and scream! Cicadas in and as art.<p>I have been following the <a href="http://crojasmolina.com/illustration/the-mathyear-challenge/list-of-prompts-for-mathyear/">prompts</a> for #mathyear, created by mathematician/illustrator <a href="http://crojasmolina.com/illustration/the-mathyear-challenge/">Constanza Rojas-Molina</a> and computer scientist/illustrator <a href="https://www.instagram.com/sanguinikde/">Marlene Knoche</a>. For the "prime number" prompt earlier this year I was reminded of how cicada lifecycles famous employ prime numbers. </p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaWIlAX1DwX8r3CS5XP9QJ-LrqEJr2ARDpe5ya0lm65yh65TeYji-zAPZaMwHfF_-slw7i3bC9mBSFdT14-0_3nLh7uBqPR4cD5ICZcZr65lM2neB4P0gLi_OhslzQuZ9qle3kiEbZZAI/s1341/PrimesCicada.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Prime cicadas by Ele Willoughby" border="0" data-original-height="1340" data-original-width="1341" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaWIlAX1DwX8r3CS5XP9QJ-LrqEJr2ARDpe5ya0lm65yh65TeYji-zAPZaMwHfF_-slw7i3bC9mBSFdT14-0_3nLh7uBqPR4cD5ICZcZr65lM2neB4P0gLi_OhslzQuZ9qle3kiEbZZAI/w400-h400/PrimesCicada.jpg" title="'Prime cicadas,' linocut with letterpress letters and digital print by Ele Willoughby" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">'Prime cicadas' by Ele Willoughby<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /> <p></p><p>I printed the first 25 natural numbers with primes in green and non-prime numbers in pink with a cicada. Periodic cicadas lay dormant for years. Then in the spring of either their 13th or 17th year, mature cicada nymphs emerge from underground synchronously, in huge numbers and the males fill the air with their droning chorus. It’s been postulated that lifecycles in prime numbers of years have an evolutionary advantage. It may be predator avoidance by making it impossible for predators to boom at a divisor of their lifecycles. Or, it may be that prime number lifecycles prevents hybridization between broods (who emerge in different years), and that this was particularly important during the Pleistocene glacial stadia when there was heavy selection pressure. We've just now seeing the Great Eastern Brood (Brood X) emerge this year! It has the greatest range and concentration of any of the 17-year cicadas.
(A small confession: the specific cicada in my print is a dog-day cicada, an annual cicada and not a member of the Magicicada genus of 13 and 17-year periodical cicadas. I’m taking a little artistic/entomological liberty.)</p><p> I've been seeing that this amazing or overwhelming event, and the beauty of cicadas, has definitely inspired many artists, so I thought I would do a round up of some I enjoy. </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.etsy.com/ca/listing/983325176/cicadas-print-funny-quotes-retro-type" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1588" data-original-width="1588" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGvLTVXr2N3bFrALMlbB44-Lge6gC0fsJ-jf0XvlzGFXf6j9rdq95DrVKyUNXR9ZBkQas7nxzYM34K1OnYVIFfngoQ61BXSwwP3AjJmnfSmICi_t3siOAXuz-mHGJKk_VsYGzjj94eUso/s320/il_1588xN.3048417525_lpxe.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.etsy.com/ca/listing/983325176/cicadas-print-funny-quotes-retro-type">Cicadas Print by Rachel E Lettering on Etsy<br /></a></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://emily-uchytil-art.myshopify.com/products/cicada-fine-art-print-7103871" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="504" data-original-width="504" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDkkutGhKFIm7QTXpHM9HRmkqO6ICBsxXLS9mR22xrPlfnFFQflnDt_Sb8bvbkJXmXzbyg-C40aMtTdUQoCVs7-hNf78Wv0p2VYP7LndpwOGVsiRmm4v0cKgn8wHC2fuXISe3NVts-qIo/s320/393395-df4839d0b630486282585563b71447db_2048x2048.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://emily-uchytil-art.myshopify.com/products/cicada-fine-art-print-7103871">Cicada oil painting on wallpaper by Emily Uchytil. Archival prints available here.<br /></a></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p><br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://obviouslycloe.org/tag/cicada-art/" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1303" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjP1AUAH8u9jGA6Ku0_lUGRTnhx5bbYnqrE0alBvIaWwlO3F2PiGHcVM85VYaN-oh89vsik95zcVwGx1yaaBNztIBTg4-ry3-jpOkNopOeb5nblUJBYrNW5bFhMFB0mXviX74TKhb8UrmA/s320/cicadas2.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://obviouslycloe.org/tag/cicada-art/">Angels diptych by Chloe Ashton<br /></a></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p><br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://d.lib.ncsu.edu/collections/catalog?per_page=50&q=seguy&search_field=all_fields&utf8=%E2%9C%93" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="426" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguM-ZIolEB0H1HpvwPIe5eBeYoOOlJQ4T9RP80DYuFkBxZ66ZBF_8axMdhS1qRP-HInIPvfjbns63x1OLB61etaAeIgc4JNCmUyQPkwmpfG1TcEyBcg4OIfVsu9NclXGC_wocrxuDpyXA/s320/easeguy1.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://d.lib.ncsu.edu/collections/catalog?per_page=50&q=seguy&search_field=all_fields&utf8=%E2%9C%93">Eugene Alain (E.A.) Seguy’s insect illustrations from the 1920s<br /></a></td></tr></tbody></table><p><br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipljYUqouJAHlY3d2hXwTO-1y8jVzxHNnV2ARDLnQE4nNy14qV0b3QH1S2bELcjqyxkdxLy64gqpFcNHiWfccBAdAWajAuGR0n2FCv40kl9VMUENotueLaK06lpSTK3AKCWhKIVpGOCQY/s436/p6200-utamaro-grasshopper-and-cicada-4678.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="436" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipljYUqouJAHlY3d2hXwTO-1y8jVzxHNnV2ARDLnQE4nNy14qV0b3QH1S2bELcjqyxkdxLy64gqpFcNHiWfccBAdAWajAuGR0n2FCv40kl9VMUENotueLaK06lpSTK3AKCWhKIVpGOCQY/s320/p6200-utamaro-grasshopper-and-cicada-4678.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="col-xs-9"><a href="https://ukiyo-e.org/artist/kitagawa-utamaro" title="Kitagawa Utamaro">Kitagawa Utamaro</a>, </span><br /><span class="col-xs-9"><span class="col-xs-9">Grasshopper and Cicada, 1788<br /></span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/43028" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="697" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVFlSU_6fMkCi98WyTlQsJ7Fdcagy_iT9Q5OBJMh6OsmJxrmt6X74gu7O5RBt93hCCL66JkIC3T-J9mesEYHCHYhtyIPSGFMDSzyb-6VOiGyg45s-TcIiYl-3UhdLNZTEPNmvuk4PpUF8/s320/main-image.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/43028">Cicada, late 19th to early 20th century China, via the Met</a></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://kagedo.com/wordpress/g/otani-haruhiko-1941-stylized-cicada-suiteki/" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="1200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsGkfo1tJjNmJhIdQ6SrXS1fgPf_uy34ZRzD0A_a1ojd55qSqJGz_Tow82Nv-CJ27wbEZmgNovQ4l5uQLSS-lberWbrox7dhphVVmpifcArz-AwH5riR7qUAEOI1TrRXUvHdqZbX7u47M/s320/japanese-art-deco-otani-haruhiko-suiteki-water-dropper-2.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><h1><a href="http://kagedo.com/wordpress/g/otani-haruhiko-1941-stylized-cicada-suiteki/"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Otani Haruhiko, 1941, Stylized Cicada Suiteki</span></span></a></h1></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>
There are also, of course, artists inspired to make art <i>from</i> cicadas and their sloughed off carapaces. S<a href="https://soranews24.com/2018/07/24/japanese-high-school-student-makes-gross-yet-cool-action-figure-out-of-bugs/">ome Japanese high schoolers even built action figures and Godzilla from cicadas shells.</a></p><p> </p><p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/adeloeart/" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="700" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2pVY1LzGQoEJukgmKEt_L8KzsKOdcwKlJu4ab1Lh4nHJifRmAppZVbH1D9UMgtw02_ZRLBiz5AIz8Sx4tUC5Hzkturkh_SJkrb5jKzLW7BPk3ImHxPu-UFBLrJu9y8TV4ZHrCYOkX-as/s320/Artist-Gives-Insects-Defense-Mechanisms-5caf5335926ab__700.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/adeloeart/">Defense mechanism by Adrienne DeLoe<br /></a></td></tr></tbody></table><br /> <br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.selvaaparicio.com/" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="854" data-original-width="1280" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhs9V3n0YXrMc703VGPcJ3uVNhfb09tZH1OPm1dU09GK35EgOJpjE3DpdisgeY5imTzZs175lJIH_PyTZdSWNX1KbN07pfqVGR1vig1DiEmtKY5eQnCkD1M_BHSLpD-7lZeHvWXCjrP4P0/s320/aparicio-3-640x427%25402x.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.selvaaparicio.com/">“Velo de luto (Mourning veil)” (2020), magicicada wings, sewn with hair,
32 x 47 x 2 inches. By Selva
Aparicio, Photo by Robert Chase Heishman. <br /></a></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://carriannebullard.tumblr.com/post/43726498869/object-cicada-wings-legs-fall-2013" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="308" data-original-width="500" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjknt2dge5Uk3biBBocI989mDuT4AjPgAruVWz_DJsNmH86duWoiMxl945psed-pbbK4T5c8811oJ9ZbrZGj7zLo3UwjDiVFVI3mryp1RJzudRGUJ5i_N2Ssma7DAQ3rmzkclcWOkSHO3s/s320/tumblr_mimp893NaV1s6ztino1_500.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div class="caption"><p><a href="https://carriannebullard.tumblr.com/post/43726498869/object-cicada-wings-legs-fall-2013"><i>Object</i> by Carianne Bullard<br /><i></i></a></p><p><a href="https://carriannebullard.tumblr.com/post/43726498869/object-cicada-wings-legs-fall-2013">Cicada wings, legs</a></p><p><a href="https://carriannebullard.tumblr.com/post/43726498869/object-cicada-wings-legs-fall-2013">Fall 2013</a></p></div></td></tr></tbody></table><br /> <p></p>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7622472899382420396.post-15445094160334980262021-04-26T11:44:00.002-04:002021-04-26T11:44:32.697-04:00Anatomical heart clutches<p>In this strange and challenging time personally and globally, I realized that I have sadly neglected magpie&whiskeyjack. So, I have resolved to make several smaller, simpler posts, since I would prefer to share than to disappear. So, without further ado, I would like to direct your attention to the gorgeous anatomical heart clutch worn by Celeste Wait on last night's Oscar's red carpet.<br /></p><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirviAJLfpKCYxMnGGiKvNJaElgNRNVHWFy3P80ZWTN9-JH2GrBsLiUBwpurIEPgt4aBURsD5EuaKLBTPr7DolNTkmaqnP2u52-9YDtnfSdm5vjI4HZAxOTW11_CIwws1p78MN0PVkjN9s/s640/tampil-di-red-carpet-piala-oscar-2021-celeste-waite-tenteng-tas-jantung-manusia-zemF8bfQjl.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="360" data-original-width="640" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirviAJLfpKCYxMnGGiKvNJaElgNRNVHWFy3P80ZWTN9-JH2GrBsLiUBwpurIEPgt4aBURsD5EuaKLBTPr7DolNTkmaqnP2u52-9YDtnfSdm5vjI4HZAxOTW11_CIwws1p78MN0PVkjN9s/w640-h360/tampil-di-red-carpet-piala-oscar-2021-celeste-waite-tenteng-tas-jantung-manusia-zemF8bfQjl.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Celeste Wait in Gucci arrives on the Oscar's 2021 red carpet (photos: Getty Images, via here)<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p>Celeste Wait's outfit and clutch are from the Gucci Fall 2021 Aria Collection. The collection also includes a silver and yellow coloured rhinestone versions of the clutch and a turquoise enamel version with text.</p><br /><p><br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiD5GA-OHoDPppiEMh4l-MBKzivZOxeDcfaV7NZ7I-M-VOCpnVHnHSS5whQ6-nDns6co7k2-tv8J75hyphenhyphenokkGVNV9UX4sWoQjpNUC1gr1AuR9xpKl9IDyzAudBOThT-f_Tl25kEkBWVca0Q/s494/Screen+Shot+2021-04-26+at+10.42.39+AM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="494" data-original-width="399" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiD5GA-OHoDPppiEMh4l-MBKzivZOxeDcfaV7NZ7I-M-VOCpnVHnHSS5whQ6-nDns6co7k2-tv8J75hyphenhyphenokkGVNV9UX4sWoQjpNUC1gr1AuR9xpKl9IDyzAudBOThT-f_Tl25kEkBWVca0Q/s320/Screen+Shot+2021-04-26+at+10.42.39+AM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Detail of Gucci Fall 2021 clutch, with silver anatomical heart (image by Gucci via Vogue.com)</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSB6FcLtc-KlulY_8WDiIRR_sOd5fYWENwcWK3K4Y_ei7D6sdCuNxestMTpG86MYMPomdp59aS537jer-h9t5FzJU6wA65_sN86ZJuBVYxiOIzpZiNaIUnAfPwigr7QXIptUYICdzsfuY/s448/Screen+Shot+2021-04-26+at+11.39.08+AM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="448" data-original-width="375" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSB6FcLtc-KlulY_8WDiIRR_sOd5fYWENwcWK3K4Y_ei7D6sdCuNxestMTpG86MYMPomdp59aS537jer-h9t5FzJU6wA65_sN86ZJuBVYxiOIzpZiNaIUnAfPwigr7QXIptUYICdzsfuY/s320/Screen+Shot+2021-04-26+at+11.39.08+AM.png" /></a></div>Detail of Gucci Fall 2021 clutch, with yellow anatomical heart (image by Gucci via luxurylanches.com)<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlZnx8kut_-Zd7TjwVkEdaGhXjBhbqT8e10I0XAZqR6M0i8Ie557kQFN88Xt177QuliHz3zYgMQLfwMNdyXvLvujRiw7fjTyOAo3l9e0gcEST4W5N_EKmFhM4_sXL3unV7RW349903aGE/s531/Screen+Shot+2021-04-26+at+10.42.59+AM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="531" data-original-width="396" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlZnx8kut_-Zd7TjwVkEdaGhXjBhbqT8e10I0XAZqR6M0i8Ie557kQFN88Xt177QuliHz3zYgMQLfwMNdyXvLvujRiw7fjTyOAo3l9e0gcEST4W5N_EKmFhM4_sXL3unV7RW349903aGE/s320/Screen+Shot+2021-04-26+at+10.42.59+AM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Detail of Gucci Fall 2021 clutch, with anatomical heart in red, violet, blue and gold (image by Gucci via Vogue.com)</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> </td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> </td></tr></tbody></table><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3VV6HUpifo5mURC7o52LovkvwN3VqWa3Db_SrTLe-7-PTW2Kx7zjt5hKFgk8nm1bk3C46MNQzAiWpSGO0jIIq0VaQ-dvvdASM9AfSO-2PZr9bxi_a5QH29S_zOqPw0puyVxGf04lYN6s/s508/Screen+Shot+2021-04-26+at+10.43.32+AM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="508" data-original-width="396" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3VV6HUpifo5mURC7o52LovkvwN3VqWa3Db_SrTLe-7-PTW2Kx7zjt5hKFgk8nm1bk3C46MNQzAiWpSGO0jIIq0VaQ-dvvdASM9AfSO-2PZr9bxi_a5QH29S_zOqPw0puyVxGf04lYN6s/s320/Screen+Shot+2021-04-26+at+10.43.32+AM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Detail of Gucci Fall 2021 clutch, with anatomical heart in turquoise with text "SAVOY club" in black (image by Gucci via Vogue.com)</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> </td></tr></tbody></table><br />
According to <a href="https://www.nssmag.com/en/fashion/25992/heart-clutch-gucci-aria-minaudiere">NSS maganize</a> these are not merely clutches, but minaudières, a sort of small rigid container made of soft material origianlly used as makeup cases. So, I am amused to note these are in fact, h<i>eart-shaped boxes, </i>which in the Nirvana song was an allusion to another organ<i>.</i><br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7622472899382420396.post-47461101919460835692019-05-04T11:55:00.000-04:002019-05-04T11:55:02.525-04:00May the Fourth Be With You<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cut Paper Darth Vader iconography artwork by London-based <a href="http://www.lobulodesign.com/" target="_blank">Lobulo Design</a> </td></tr>
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Some Star Wars themed art for you today.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">One of a series of ukiyo-e style Star Wars themed woodblock prints made for <a href="http://dentoistradition.com/">Rhythm Force</a></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://justinvg.myportfolio.com/star-wars-universe">Jan van Genderen</a>'s Star Wars travel poster for Alderaan</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://justinvg.myportfolio.com/star-wars-universe">Jan van Genderen</a>'s Star Wars travel poster for Cloud City</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://justinvg.myportfolio.com/star-wars-universe">Jan van Genderen</a>'s Star Wars travel poster for Endor</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.oliverjeffers.com/">Oliver Jeffers</a>' Darth Vader Phrenology head created for the <a href="https://www.thevaderproject.com/">Vader Project</a></td></tr>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7622472899382420396.post-60357967353394337182019-03-28T15:16:00.001-04:002019-03-28T15:16:56.185-04:00Seeds and Pods<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">ceramic pods by Alice Ballard</td></tr>
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It is almost spring here and while it's too early to plant, I've been thinking about seeds. When you look at the forms of seeds, particularly magnified, they are astonishing: complex, organic, sculptural shapes. Some artists have taken seeds as inspiration or even a medium. Here are a few and their extraordinary work.<br />
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American ceramicist <a href="http://aliceballard.com/home-1">Alice Ballard</a>'s work features a lot of seeds, pods and other organic forms. She explores pods as a feminine form, like a womb, detailing textures and colours with wall-mounted pods. She has been exploring these ideas for years and yet still finds endless new variations.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">ceramic pods by <a href="http://aliceballard.com/home-1">Alice Ballard</a></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">ceramic pod by <a href="http://aliceballard.com/home-1">Alice Ballard</a></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">ceramic pods by <a href="http://aliceballard.com/home-1">Alice Ballard</a></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Carved sycamore seeds: 1 x 60 cm x 25 cm x 10 cm<br />1 x 48 cm x 18 cm x 9 cm by <a href="https://www.lizmcauliffe.com/">Liz McAuliffe</a></b></td></tr>
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Seeds and pods appear in New Zealand artist <a href="https://www.lizmcauliffe.com/">Liz McAuliffe</a>'s bigger than life sculptures. By blowing up the minutiae of biological forms, she draws the viewers into to consider nature more carefully.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Abizia Pod, <b>Size (h w d): 80 cm x 15 cm x 5 cm, acrylics on carved wood by <a href="https://www.lizmcauliffe.com/">Liz McAuliffe</a></b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Honesty Pods by <a href="https://www.lizmcauliffe.com/">Liz McAuliffe</a><br />
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American sculptor <a href="http://pamelasunday.com/info">Pamela Sunday</a>'s work reflects natural forms, many reminiscent of microscopic seed forms. She has moved from the fashion world to build a sculptural practise inspired by science and nature, and exhibiting worldwide.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">ceramic sculpture by <a href="http://pamelasunday.com/info">Pamela Sunday</a></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">ceramic sculpture by <a href="http://pamelasunday.com/info">Pamela Sunday</a></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">ceramic sculpture by <a href="http://pamelasunday.com/info">Pamela Sunday</a></td></tr>
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German artist <a href="http://www.christianeloehr.de/">Christiane Löhr</a>'s artworks include a collection made with plants including seeds. Piles and structures of delicate plant material take on organic architectural shapes and patterns.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kleine Fläche <i>little surface,</i> 2007<br />
airborne seeds, 5 x 20 x 35 cm by <a href="http://www.christianeloehr.de/">Christiane Löhr</a></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Löwenzahnkissen <em>dandelion cushion,</em> 2009<br />
dandelion seeds, 18 x 43 x 37 cm by Christiane Löhr</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kleiner Turm <em>little tower,</em> 1999 <br />
ivy seeds, 16 x 13 x 10 cm by <a href="http://www.christianeloehr.de/">Christiane Löhr</a></td></tr>
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Korean artist <a href="https://heejookim.com/">Heejoo Kim</a>'s metalwork jewellery incorporates beautiful natural forms of pods and seeds if you want these beautiful forms to wear.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Necklace, <span>Enameled copper, leather and thread by </span><br /><span><a href="https://heejookim.com/">Heejoo Kim</a></span></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span> </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Brooch <span>by </span><br /><span><a href="https://heejookim.com/">Heejoo Kim</a></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Brooch <span>by </span><br /><span><a href="https://heejookim.com/">Heejoo Kim</a></span></td></tr>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7622472899382420396.post-6148781080496966172019-02-25T13:15:00.002-05:002019-02-25T13:15:31.487-05:00Beetles and Bugs Versus Oscar Fashion<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Emma Stone (in Louis Vuitton) arrives at the Academy Awards February
24, 2019 (detail of photo by Marl Ralston/AFP/Getty Images) and left:<i> Apriona swainsoni,</i> female by <a class="owner-name truncate" data-track="attributionNameClick" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/33398884@N03/" title="Go to Ben Sale's photostream">Ben Sale</a><br />
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Sometimes I watch the Oscars, but mainly for the
pretty clothes. I went to bed after Spike Lee won for his screenplay,
probably correct in my suspicion the show had peaked (with a joyous
moment overdue by a few decades). I did enjoy the clothes, and in
particular that several men stepped it up with colour, and capes and one
truly spectacular skirt. Today this is my excuse to contrast the
astonishing biodiversity of beetles with the beautiful textiles and
couture on display. See the previous such posts: I really enjoyed
bringing you the <a href="http://magpieandwhiskeyjack.blogspot.ca/2015/02/nudibranch-fashion-jellyfish-couture.html">best in nudibranch Oscar fashion</a> and <a href="http://magpieandwhiskeyjack.blogspot.com/2016/02/take-diversity-of-bees-over-oscar.html">bee biodiversity versus Oscar fashion</a>
before. The variation in bugs and beetles is staggering, and I hope
you'll see they show great beauty, even if you're inclined to think of
them as creepy crawlies.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Left: Lisa Bonet and Jason Momoa (detail of photograph: Frazer Harrison/Getty Images) and right: <i>Cerambycidae</i> from Senegal, male and female, shot by <a href="https://www.insecte.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=59304">Insecte member ocis</a><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Left: Helen Mirren arrives at the Academy Awards February 24, 2019 (Photograph: Mark Ralston/AFP/Getty Images) and right: <i>Omophoita</i> via <a href="https://www.nationalgeographic.com/">National Geographic</a></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Left: Glenn Close at the <a data-wpel-link="internal" href="https://www.redcarpet-fashionawards.com/category/red-carpet-events/oscars/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">2019 Oscars</a> on February 24, 2019 in Caroline Herrera and right: Golden Tortoise Beetle (via <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_tortoise_beetle#/media/File:Golden_Tortoise_Beetle_-_Charidotella_sexpunctata.jpg">Wikipedia</a>)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Left: Chris Evans, February 24, 2019 at the Academy Awards (<span class="credit">Getty Images) and </span><br />
<span class="credit">right: the six-spotted tiger beetle (<i>Cicindela sexguttata</i>) </span><br />
<span class="credit"><a class="modal-trigger-wrapper" href="https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/beetle#">(courtesy Matt Bright/flickr CC) </a></span></td></tr>
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Michelle Yeoh wearing Ellie Saab at the February 24, 2019 Academy
Awards (By Steve Granitz/WireImage) and left: Corythuca ciliata, the <b>sycamore lace bug</b> (<a href="http://shelbydotson.xyz/corythucha-ciliata/">via here</a>)</td></tr>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7622472899382420396.post-81004104164109939942019-02-20T10:57:00.002-05:002019-02-20T10:57:39.668-05:00Sol-Monath is for Science Cakes<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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I learned from the Wellcome Collection (a
museum which aims to share "science, medicine, life and art") that
February was once the month of cakes. <br />
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The Anglo-Saxon name for February was Sol-Monath which roughly means 'the month of cakes'. BRING BACK THE PAST NOW! <a href="https://t.co/8sco87xU1G">pic.twitter.com/8sco87xU1G</a></div>
— Wellcome Collection (@ExploreWellcome) <a href="https://twitter.com/ExploreWellcome/status/1091326048707506176?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 1, 2019</a></blockquote>
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so let's talk about cakes as science-art and science communication shall we? <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">ATLAS detector cake (credit: Katharine Leney via <a href="https://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/a-taste-of-particle-physics">Symmetry</a>)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Universe cake (credit: David Morse and Katharine Leney via <a href="https://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/a-taste-of-particle-physics">Symmetry</a>)</td></tr>
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Particle physicists Katy Grimm and
Katharine Leney who work on the ATLAS collaboration at CERN, discovered
they also share a mutual love of baking. <a href="https://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/a-taste-of-particle-physics">Symmetry magazine</a>
covers their delightful cakes (and other baked goods) which do
everything from directly illustrating the ATLAS particle detector, to
equations, diagrams and other data visualizations to metaphorically
communicating the structure of protons according to the Standard Model
or communicating through the medium of the cosmos cake, the proportions
of regular matter, dark matter and dark energy. You'll find more via <a href="https://twitter.com/PhysicsCakes">PhysicsCakes on Twitter</a>.<br />
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In
the wonderful world of science cakes, Earth and planetary science and
amazingly well represented. Australian zoologist Rhiannon has posted
several wonderful examples, including <a href="https://cakecrumbs.me/2013/08/01/spherical-concentric-layer-cake-tutorial/">tutorials</a> for nested spherical cakes on her blog <a href="https://cakecrumbs.me/">Cakecrumbs</a>.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This
wonder Earth cake shows oceans and continents on the blue icing layer,
orange mantle and yellow inner and outer core layers. (via <a href="https://cakecrumbs.me/">Cakecrumbs</a>)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The
beautiful Jupiter cake likewise has three concentric layers to
represent rocky and icy core, a middle liquid metal hydrogen layer and
an outer molecular hydrogen layer. She says the famous giant anticyclone
storm, the Great Red Spot was what attracted her. She recreated the
patterns in the atmosphere with "ivory marshmallow fondant, then dry
brushing a combination of ivory, brown and maroon edible ink." (via <a href="https://cakecrumbs.me/">Cakecrumbs</a>)</td></tr>
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You can find space cakes bedecked or embedded with the planets of the solar system! Consider this tutorial for <a href="https://www.alsothecrumbsplease.com/mirror-glaze-galaxy-cake-maximacomepass/">Mirror Glaze Galaxy Cake</a> from the Also the Crumbs Please blog, the Astronomy themed groom's cake or the award-winning portrait of Galileo Galilei!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Astronomy-themed groom's cake shot by <a data-reactid="137" href="http://www.mcconnellphoto.com/">Laurel McConnell</a></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.alsothecrumbsplease.com/mirror-glaze-galaxy-cake-maximacomepass/">Mirror Glaze Galaxy Cake</a> from the Also the Crumbs Please</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://cakesdecor.com/cakes/167210-galileo-galilei">Galileo cake, winner of the Birmingham’s Cake International gold medal in the international class.</a></td></tr>
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The
mirror glaze is also just the thing for anyone creating cakes
representing marble, many minerals or geode cakes. Geodes in fact, have
been a real trend in wedding cakes and there is an astonishing array of
geode inspired cakes in every imaginable colours.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.musely.com/tips/Mirror-Glazed-Cake-Recipe/30662764">Mirror glaze cake with recipe from Musely</a></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.100layercake.com/blog/2017/01/03/how-to-throw-a-boho-geode-wedding/" target="_blank">Boho geode wedding cake</a> by <a href="http://www.cakelifebakeshop.com/" target="_blank">Cake Life Bake Shop</a> | Photo by <a href="http://www.hopehelmuthphotography.com/" target="_blank">Hope Helmuth</a></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.youandyourwedding.co.uk/planning/cakes/22-stunning-geode-wedding-cakes/">Geode cake via You and Your Wedding</a></td></tr>
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Natural history cakes don't stop with
mineral specimens! Flora and fauna are popular too. There's a long
history of using actual edible flowers, or sculpting flowers or leaves,
often cast directly from actual plants - but those that convincingly
recreate lifeforms with cake, icing, chocolate, fondant and other edibles
are my favourites.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lifelike deer cake by legendary Grand Dame of the cake decorating world, Sylvia Weinstock</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This
beauty hits on both natural history and the history of science as it's
inspired by the hyper-realistic botanical still-life paintings of Dutch
artist Rachel Ruysch (1685 to 1750). This cake is deocrated with
custom-made sugar flowers, created by Amy DeGiulio of <a href="http://www.sugarflowershop.com/" tabindex="-1" target="_blank">Sugar Flower Cake Shop</a> in New York City, and placed in a gold urn to complete the look. (via <a href="https://www.marthastewartweddings.com/231244/wedding-cakes-inspired-works-art?slide=731679">Martha Stewart Weddings</a>)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://cakecrumbs.me/2014/03/26/tasmanian-masked-owl-cake/">Tasmanian Masked Owl cake from Cakecrumbs</a></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Albino Burmese Python Snake cake by by <a href="https://www.facebook.com/NorthStarCakes/app_2374336051" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Francesca Pitcher</a> from <a href="https://www.facebook.com/NorthStarCakes/">North Star Cakes</a><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jakarta-based pastry chef <a href="http://ivenoven.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Iven Kawi</a> who runs the <a href="https://www.instagram.com/ivenoven/" target="_blank">Iven Oven</a> where she makes these wonderful terrarium inspired cakes which hit the succulent trend (via <a href="https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2017/04/amazing-terrarium-and-flower-cakes-created-by-iven-kawi/">Colossal</a>)<br />
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My son requested a dinosaur-shaped cake, capped with a
Cretaceous scene
with volcano and smaller dinosaurs for his 5th birthday, so I assure
you, this is but a tiny peek at what is out there. I haven't even
touched on paleontological cakes, or the gothic world of anatomy cakes.
There's a whole world of yummy cake-based science art/communication out
there for you to explore and, better yet, eat.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lithograph from 1888 showing the Krakatoa eruption, author unknown. (via <a href="https://publicdomainreview.org/2012/05/28/the-krakatoa-sunsets/">Public Domain Review</a>)</td></tr>
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Natural disasters and phenomena have always inspired art. The connection between volcanism and art has many interwoven strands. Volcanoes, eruptions, and their impacts can be seen throughout the history; in fact, a type of volcanic eruption with continuous gas-driven eruption with large amounts of pumice and volcanic debris launched into the stratosphere, are called Plinian after <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pliny_the_Younger">Pliny the Younger</a>, who wrote about the 79 CE Vesuvius eruption to his uncle <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pliny_the_Elder">Pliny the Elder</a>. Art has been used as a tool to consider and communicate the beauty of volcanoes, the power and devastation of their eruptions, their vivid technicolour effects on our skies, and in turn, art itself has even been used as a proxy for considering the historical effects of particulate matter in our atmosphere due to volcanic eruptions.<br />
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The earliest volcanic art is generally religious in nature. Think Roman paintings and sculptures of Vulcan, the blacksmith god of fire, working inside the island Vulcano off the coast of southern Italy or miniature effigies of Popocatépetl, made by the Tetimpa people of Puebla, Mexico, for a volcano active between 50 B.C.E and 100 C.E. Sébastien Nomade and colleagues in fact argue that the earliest depictions of volcanoes are much, much earlier. They indentified 36,000 year old stone engravings of a spray shape from the Chauvet-Pont d’Arc Cave in France as depictions of a volcanic eruption, as there are volcanic rocks in the cave dating from 30,000 to 40,000 years ago. A 9,000 year old Turkish mosaic seems to likewise commemorate a nearby volcanic eruption. Some speculate myths and entire religions were inspired by experiences and observations of volcanoes.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kircher’s diagram showing the interconnectedness of fire inside the earth, from <em>Mundus Subterraneus</em>.</td></tr>
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The infancy of science as we know it is reflected in speculative art of the proto-scientific illustrations of the source of volcanism, in 17th-century polymath<strong> </strong>Athanasius Kircher’s <i>Mundus Subterraneus, </i>1665. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Vesuvius
from Portici</i>, Joseph Wright of Derby.
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The accuracy of English painter Joseph Wright of Derby's 30 odd paintings of
Vesuvius erupting, made between 1774 and 1780, including the famed “Vesuvius from Portici,” are astonishing, considering he never actually saw the volcano erupt. He relied on his sketches of the volcano made while inactive, and his imagination.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">JMW Turner
<em>The Eruption of the Soufriere Mountains in the Island of St. Vincent, 30th April 1812</em>Oil on canvas© University of Liverpool Art Gallery & Collections, The Bridgeman Art Library
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="css-8i9d0s e13ogyst0">“Chichester Canal,” by J.M.W. Turner has vivid skies from the Tambora eruption. </span><span class="css-vuqh7u e1z0qqy90" itemprop="copyrightHolder"><span class="css-1ly73wi e1tej78p0">Credit</span><span>Tate, London 2015</span></span></td></tr>
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The massive and deadly 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora, the largest in recorded history, put so much debris into our atmosphere it triggered what has been known as "the year without summer" - the first of three years of cooling - leading to frigid weather, agriculture collapse, pandemics, vivid sunsets and one dark and stormy night which has gone down in the history of Gothic literature, as it saw the birth of Mary Shelley's <i>Frankenstein </i>and Lord Byron write the outline for “<a class="css-1g7m0tk" href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/6087/6087-h/6087-h.htm" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" title="Project Gutenberg file.">The Vampyre</a>.” Byron wrote “Darkness,” later that year, likewise inspired by the frigid temperature and volcano-darkened skies. <br />
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Japanese artist <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hokusai" title="Hokusai">Hokusai</a> </i>(1760–1849) made his iconic series of <i>ukiyo-e </i>style woodblock prints "<i><b>Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji</b></i><span style="font-weight: normal;">" in the 1830s. These 46 prints are considered masterpieces made at the height of his carreer, highlight many views of the beloved, beautiful volcano from different perspectives and in different weather, including the most well-know </span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Wave_off_Kanagawa" title="The Great Wave off Kanagawa">The Great Wave off Kanagawa</a></i>. He himself later returned to this subject again and again, as did other other printmakers like </span><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroshige" title="Hiroshige">Andō Hiroshige</a>.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Great Wave off Kanagawa, <b>Katsushika Hokusai</b><span style="font-weight: normal;">, c. 1829-1832</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">View of Mount Fuji from Satta Point in the Suruga Bay, Andō Hiroshige, 1859</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">One of the sketches carried out by William Ascroft in the winter of 1883/4 - used as the frontispiece of <em>The Eruption of Krakatoa, and Subsequent Phenomena: Report of the Krakatoa committee of the Royal Society</em> (1888), ed. by G.J. Simmons. (via <a href="https://publicdomainreview.org/2012/05/28/the-krakatoa-sunsets/">Public Domain Review</a>)</td></tr>
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After the spectacular and devastating 1883 eruption of Indonesian volcano Krakatoa, the debris spread around the global stratosphere and caused lurid sunsets even in Britain, where painter William Ascroft struggled to document the effect with evening pastel sketches. He exhibited more than 500 in the galleries of the Science Museum. In Oslo, painter Edvard Munch wrote, “it was as if a flaming sword of blood slashed open the vault of
heaven ... the atmosphere turned to blood – with glaring
tongues of fire – the hills became deep blue – the fjord shaded into
cold blue – among the yellow and red colours – that garish blood-red –
on the road – and the railing – my companions’ faces became yellow-white
– I felt something like a great scream – and truly I heard a great
scream.” (via <a href="https://publicdomainreview.org/2012/05/28/the-krakatoa-sunsets/">Public Domain Review</a>) Though debated, some researchers believe these vivid skies later inspired his famous series of works, <i>The Scream</i> (Olson et al., 2004).<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Edvard Munch, <i>The Scream</i>, 1893. Credit: public domain.</td></tr>
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The 1880s and 1890s even saw a romantic movement of non-indigenous artists in Hawai'i known as the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volcano_School">Volcano School</a> producing paintings of dramatic nocturnal eruptions. These artists did strive for accuracy making grueling multi-day hikes up the slopes of Kilauea.<br />
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Chemists have even looked to art history to see if sunsets depicted could be a measure of post-eruption aerosols in the atmosphere. Zerefos and colleagues first thought to see if the red to green ratio in painted sunsets from 1500 and 2000 accurately reflected how much sunsets were enhanced and made redder following 54 major volcanic eruptions (and whether it correlated with aerosol optical depth). They began with images of works from museum websites, but realized that these photos could be biased by differing, subjective, colour correction by photographers. So, they repeated their study with a subset of images from the Tate (mainly by Turner). They found that sunset paintings made the year of a major eruption and the three subsequent years did indeed skew red, accurately correlated with the expected tiny volcanic particles in the atmosphere. This effect persisted despite other influences on sunset colours including pigments available and styles in art.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Andy Warhol
<em>Vesuvius </em>Naples, Museo di Capodimonte © Photo Scala, Florence/Courtesy of the Ministero Beni e Att. Culturali
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Volcanoes have continued to inspire even modern artists, though strict realism is no longer the goal in many instances. The movement and power is conveyed while colour has more to do with emotion and aesthetics than aerosol optical depth - for instance in Warhol's <i>Vesuvius</i>. As Vesuvius itself had been a stop on the typical European Grand Tour, Warhol recognized paintings of Vesuvius as a cliche and hence a great topic for him to explore. Though she made representative volcono prints, a more poetic and symbolic representation can be seen in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertha_Lum">Bertha Lum</a>'s woodblock print Spirit of the Volcano.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://art.famsf.org/node/934077">Bertha Lum</a>, <a href="http://art.famsf.org/bertha-lum/spirit-volcano-19627764">Spirit of the Volcano</a>, Color Woodcut, 1933</td></tr>
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See also <a href="http://magpieandwhiskeyjack.blogspot.com/2017/07/found-wood-assemblage-earth-and.html">Ron van der Ende's wood assemblances I wrote about here.</a><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Danny Osborne, A conquistador’s helmet cast from lava via <a href="https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/artist-sculptures-lava-volcano">Atlas Obscura</a></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Osborne and crew use a mold on long pole is inserted into flowing lava <strong>Volcano Pacaya, Guatemala. 2010.</strong> via <a href="https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/artist-sculptures-lava-volcano">Atlas Obscura</a></td></tr>
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Finally today, volcanoes themselves can become the medium as well as message. Contemporary sculptor <a href="https://www.dannyosborne.com/">Danny Osborne</a> prefers to interact more directly with volcanoes and casts sculptures with molds plunged directly into flowing lava! <br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7622472899382420396.post-33977428266099879622019-01-30T14:34:00.000-05:002019-01-30T14:34:10.885-05:00Art about Math<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">'fractal geometry I', fern leaf print and linocut by me, Ele Willoughby, which I shared for #mathyear theme <span class="st"><em>Sierpiński</em></span></td></tr>
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This last November, <a class="fullname ProfileNameTruncated-link u-textInheritColor js-nav" data-aria-label-part="" href="https://twitter.com/SanguinikDE">Marlene Knoche</a> and <a class="ProfileHeaderCard-nameLink u-textInheritColor js-nav" href="https://twitter.com/Coni777">Constanza Rojas-Molina</a> launched #Noethember, encouraging mathematicians and artists to share daily images and facts about the great mathematician <a href="https://www.etsy.com/ca/listing/619317699/linocut-portrait-of-emmy-noether">Emmy Noether</a>. They had so much fun, this year, they are posting weekly prompts for math-related imagery to be shared with the hashtag #mathyear. January was all about fractals. February will be about connections between mathematics and other concepts (like the environment, time, love, and sociology). Find new prompts each month on <a href="https://www.sanguinik.de/">Knoche's blog</a> and follow the hashtag on Twitter or Instagram to enjoy the math-art!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7622472899382420396.post-53627978975499195582019-01-11T10:57:00.000-05:002019-01-11T11:09:38.805-05:00Science storytelling<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Me (left), the marine geophysicist, in the field and some of my sciart <br />
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Mae Jemison (above) and mathematician and Space Race aeronautical <br />
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I had not realized how few posts I made here in 2018. So, one of my New Year's resolutions is to post more frequently in 2019. I find my goals are sometimes too elaborate to acheive in the time I have available, so my pragmatic solution is to open up my criteria a bit and mix up longer posts with those briefly sharing some of my discoveries of wonderous items at the intersection of art and science.<br />
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To start off, let me share some of my own adventures in sharing science mixed with art, both #sciart and storytelling about science. Last fall, I gave a talk about my experience as an astronaut candidate for the Canadian Space Agency for Science Literacy Week. Since astronauts are both scientists and science communicators, I combined an introduction to my research with my science-art, since I usually use the medium of fine art to communicate science these days. This was the first time I had an opportunity to combine these two very different pursuits in one talk! I also, of course, spoke about the extraordinary experience of the astronaut selection process and getting the opportunity to go the the Astronaut Assessment Centre. I have since given a version of this talk to a troupe of boy scouts and visiting girl scouts. I will be giving this talk two more times this year at Toronto Public Libraries. You can catch me:<br />
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March 19th at 2 pm<br />
<span class="il">Albert</span> <span class="il">Campbell</span> Library <br />
496 Birchmount Road <br />
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But even sooner, you can catch me next Monday, telling a tale about when marine geophysics goes wrong, at the Burdock (1184 Bloor Street) for <a href="https://www.storycollider.org/">The Story Collider,</a> a science storytelling event series and podcast, where people tell personal stories about science. You can <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-story-collider-toronto-on-january-2019-control-tickets-53269915752?fbclid=IwAR1PZdhw4afFoQq0lAGOAR-nO5BicQS_1u3xg2t-EpJGYKpsNkTV0iIgdH0">reserve your ticket</a> here. The stories might begin at 7:30 but seating is limited, so unless you're happier standing (closer to the bar), you'll want to arrive by 7:00.<br />
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You are likely to recognize the geometrical art of Mondrian, usually in primary colours and black, space divided into variable grids with rectangles of colour, and perhaps the work of Theo van Doesburg and others in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Stijl">De Stijl</a> (Dutch for “the style”) group. Their work, is often seen as a response to the chaos and horrors of WWI and a desire to impose order and structure by taking Cubism to its logical, geometrical extreme. "The Style" has been immensely influential on 20th century art, through other movements like Constructivism and the Bauhaus movement in art, craft and architecture. I don't just these artworks and movements as simply a rejection of chaos, but as an embrace of the tools of scientific and mathematical communication and data visualization of the 19th century.<br />
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Consider the 19th-century civil engineer and mathematician named Oliver Byrne and his well-loved 1847 edition of the foundation of geometry <i>Euclid’s Elements. </i>When you look at at his diagrams with modern eyes, De Stijl is what comes to mind. His diagrams in primary colours, red, yellow and blue along with black, on a white field, his use of space all look eerily familiar, though published almost seven decades earlier.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Oliver Byrne from <a href="http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/3836544717/braipick09-20" target="_blank"><b><i>The First Six Books of the Elements of Euclid</i></b></a> (<a href="http://www.worldcat.org/title/first-six-books-of-the-elements-of-euclid/oclc/859560815&referer=brief_results" target="_blank"><i>public library</i></a>)</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Oliver Byrne from <a href="http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/3836544717/braipick09-20" target="_blank"><b><i>The First Six Books of the Elements of Euclid</i></b></a></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Oliver Byrne from <a href="http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/3836544717/braipick09-20" target="_blank"><b><i>The First Six Books of the Elements of Euclid</i></b></a></td></tr>
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You can see such striped down, elegant graphical design in 19th century data visualizations too. Consider this lovely diagram from the superintendent of the US census for 1870, Francis Amasa Walker, aided by colour lithographer Julius Bien, and how he displayed the data on religious observance:</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Francis Amasa Walker, Ninth Census of 1870 (with colour lithographer Julius Bien), chart of religious observance </td></tr>
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which brings to mind not only the rectangular shapes of Mondrian but the colour field paintings of Marc Rothko and others (such as <a href="http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/denny-baby-is-three-t01730">this painting by Robyn Denny</a> from as late as 1960). Or this image of demographics by state;<br />
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In the mid 19th century, Elizabeth Peabody made quilts with abstract visualizations of American history so she could take them on tour and discuss drivers of history with students! She designed these grid quilts for her own U.S. history textbook (1856).<br />
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Elizabeth Peabody, historical visualizations quilt (<a href="https://ssir.org/articles/entry/telling_your_data_story_well">1856 - Image by the Digital Humanities Lab at Georgia Tech</a>)</div>
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Writer, sociologist, activist and Pan-Africanist William Edward Burghardt “W. E. B.” Du Bois worked with his students in Atlanta to create beautiful, immediate and effective data visualizations of demographics and economic life in Georgia for the “Exhibit of American Negroes,” (organized by Du Bois, Thomas J. Calloway and Booker T. Washington to represent contemporary black contributions to life in the US) at the 1900 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exposition_Universelle_%281900%29" target="_blank">Exposition Universelle</a> in Paris. Others have noted these images hint at the coming De Stijl movement; Alison Meier wrote in <a href="http://hyperallergic.com/306559/w-e-b-du-boiss-modernist-data-visualizations-of-black-life/" target="_blank">Hyperallergic</a>, that “they’re strikingly vibrant and modern, almost anticipating the crossing lines of Piet Mondrian or the intersecting shapes of Wassily Kandinsky”.<br />
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Data visualizations which clearly made their way into artists' hands, and in fact were often made by artists themselves, include colour charts, like these by American artist Emily Noyes Vanderpoel (1842-1939) from <i>Color problems: A practical manual for the lay student of color.</i></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Emily Noyes Vanderpoel (1842-1939) from <i>Color problems: A practical manual for the lay student of color</i></td></tr>
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But these are not dissimilar to scholarly works of analysis, not strictly aimed at artists, like this diagram:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Frontispiece to Annie Besant and Charles Leadbetter’s <a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2014/03/19/victorian-occultism-and-the-art-of-synesthesia/" target="_blank"><i>Thought-Forms</i></a> (1905), ascribing colours to particular emotions – <a href="http://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/besant1905" target="_blank">Source</a>.</td></tr>
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To me, it does not seem a large leap from these grids of colours squares, or clean, simple geometric data visualizations to De Stijl.<br />
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Theo van Doesburg De zaaier Design for Leaded Light Window 1921 Collection Museum Drachten.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>A 1921 painting by Piet Mondrian</i></td></tr>
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<span class="center balance-text" style="font-size: x-small;">Piet Mondrian. Broadway Boogie Woogie. 1942-43 </span></h1>
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Or the near contemporaneous Constructivism movement in art, with monochromatic shapes "constructing" art and Suprematism with its limited palette, and geometrical shapes and lines, in Russia, and of course the Bauhaus school in Germany which cast long shadows across art, craft and architecture of the entire century.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="mw-mmv-title">Wassily Kandinsky<i>, Circles in a Circle</i>, 1923</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kasimir Malevich (1879-1935)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Malevich "Suprematist Composition"</b><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="#19"></a><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Walter Adolph Georg Gropius (18 May 1883 – 5 July 1969) from Bauhaus Manifesto</td></tr>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span itemprop="name" style="font-size: x-small;"><a class="artist-name" href="https://www.wikiart.org/en/sophie-taeuber-arp">Sophie Taeuber-Arp</a>, </span><span style="font-size: x-small;">Composition, 1937</span></span></h1>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Maria Popova, <a href="https://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/11/29/taschen-oliver-byrne-euclids-elements/">Mondrian Meets Euclid: An Eccentric Victorian Mathematician’s Masterwork of Art and Science</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://publicdomainreview.org/collections/w-e-b-du-bois-hand-drawn-infographics-of-african-american-life-1900/"><span style="font-weight: normal;">W. E. B. Du Bois’ Hand-Drawn Infographics of African-American Life (1900)</span></a><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">, The Public Domain Review</span></i><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.loc.gov/pictures/search/?q=%22lot%2011931%22%20NOT%20medal&st=grid&co=anedub&loclr=blogpic"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Library of Congress collection W. E. B. Du Bois' data visulizations for the assembled for the 1900 Paris Exposition </span></a></span></h1>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><cite class="post__by">Susan Schulten, </cite></span><a href="https://www.fastcodesign.com/1670625/11-of-the-most-influential-infographics-of-the-19th-century" title="11 Of The Most Influential Infographics Of The 19th Century">11 Of The Most Influential Infographics Of The 19th Century</a><span style="font-weight: normal;"> September 25, 2012</span></span></h1>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Jason Diamond, </span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://flavorwire.com/425029/colorful-victorian-era-illustratons-for-euclids-elements">Colorful Victorian-Era Illustratons for Euclid’s ‘Elements’</a><time class="date" datetime="November 14, 2013">, November 14, 2013</time></span></span></h1>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/color-analysis-charts-by-emily-noyes-vanderpoel-1902/?utm_content=bufferc6f0c&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer">Colour Analysis Charts by Emily Noyes Vanderpoel (1902)</a></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">, The Public Domain Review</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Alex Bigman, <a href="https://99designs.ca/blog/creative-inspiration/know-your-design-history-the-utopian-de-stijl-movement/">A brief visual history of the utopian De Stijl movement </a></span></span></h1>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Oliver Byrne, <a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/the-first-six-books-of-the-elements-of-euclid-1847/">The First Six Books of The Elements of Euclid (1847)</a>, The Public Domain Review</span></span></h1>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">“<a href="http://dh.prattsils.org/blog/resources/event-reviews/the-shape-of-history-reimagine-19th-century-data-visualization-by-lauren-klein-at-columbia-university/">The Shape of History: Reimagine 19th Century Data Visualization</a>” by Lauren Klein at Columbia University </span></span></h1>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Howard Russell Butler (1856–1934), Solar Eclipse, Lompoc 1923. Oil on canvas.</td></tr>
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In honour of today's solar eclipse, the first of the century visible in this part of the world, I thought I would look at some of the artistic depictions of solar eclipses through time.<br />
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I'm a fan of the elegance and humour of astronomer Katie Mack's popular eclipse tweet:<br />
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🌓🌎🌞 <-- lunar eclipse<br />
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🌎🌓🌞 <-- solar eclipse<br />
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🌎🌞🌗 <-- apocalypse</div>
— Katie Mack (@AstroKatie) <a href="https://twitter.com/AstroKatie/status/518697246305439745">October 5, 2014</a></blockquote>
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As a science-artist, I often wonder how to portray astronomy, or earth and planetary science without reproducing actual diagrams, but some have done so in delightful and artistic ways. Artistic works incorporate both actual diagrams and abstractions, from Joseph Cornell's assemblages complete with scientific ephemera, through Roy Lichtenstein's stylized pop art with a true sense of movement of the celestial bodies, capturing the 4D event on the 2D plane. The always delightful Rachel Ignotofsky incorporates some diagrams in her retelling of the life and science of underappreciated Qing Dynasty astronomer and mathematician <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wang_Zhenyi_(astronomer)">Wang Zhenyi</a> (1768–1797) in her fabulous book <a href="http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/1607749769/braipick09-20" target="_blank"><b><i>Women in Science</i></b></a>.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Joseph Cornell (1903 – 1972), <i>Earth Eclipse</i> <br />
ca. 1960 <br />
Assemblage in box: wood, glass, steel, plaster, blue sand, and photograph <br />
12.3 x 25.5 x 8 cm </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Roy Lichtenstein, <i>Eclipse of the Sun</i> (1975)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rachel Ignotofsky, spread on Wang Zhenyi and how she deduced the mechanism of solar eclipses, from <a href="http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/1607749769/braipick09-20" target="_blank"><b><i>Women in Science</i></b></a></td></tr>
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Artists throughout time and across cultures have used the image of solar eclipses to bring a hint of the eerie or supernatural to their works and eclipses are not uncommon in religious art.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Raphael (and his workshop), 1483-1520, Isaac and Rebecca Spied on by Abimelech</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Yoshitoshi Taiso (1839-1892), Mount Yoshino Midnight-Moon: Iga no Tsunone, from the series One Hundred Aspects of the Moon (1885-1892), ukiyo-e woodblook print on paper</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Egon Schiele, (1890-1928) Crucifixion with Darkened Sun, 1907, oil on canvas</td></tr>
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Some more contemporary works are more evocative than direct illustions.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Diego Rivera (1886 – 1957), Portrait of Ramón Gómez de la Serna, 1915, makes reference to the poet's own mentions of eclipses and hints at the artist's own love of eclipses<b><br /></b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rosemarie Fiore's "Smoke Eclipse #52," 2015. Firework smoke residue on Sunray paper.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Russell Crotty's "Blue Totality," 2017. Ink and watercolor, fiberglass,
plastic and tinted bio-resin on paper, 48 inches by 48 inches by 1 inch</td></tr>
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Many of these works benefited from the artists' own observations of actual eclipses and art historians can often tie works to recent eclipses in a given region. There are also wonderful images created as science communication, to literally depict events for research or teaching purposes. Princeton University has a wonderful exhibit website for the scientific illustration <a href="http://artmuseum.princeton.edu/transient-effects/painter-sun/eclipse-paintings-howard-russell-butler">eclipse paintings of Howard Russell Butler (1856–1934)</a>. The site brought my attention to many of the works here and you should view and read more context <a href="http://artmuseum.princeton.edu/transient-effects/painter-sun/eclipse-paintings-howard-russell-butler">there</a>. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Adolf Fassbender (1884-1980), Sun's Total Eclipse, 1925, Gelatin silver print</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">William Langenheim (1807–1874)<span class="inline-caption"><a href="http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/283180"><i>Eclipse of the Sun</i></a>, 1854. Daguerreotypes, from 1 1/4 x 1 in. (3.2 x 2.5 cm) to 2 13/16 x 2 5/16 in. (7.2 x 5.9 cm). First known photographs of a solar eclipse</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Illustration from Der Mond, 1876 by James Nasmyth and James Carpenter </td></tr>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7622472899382420396.post-20382161270802263692017-08-15T10:33:00.001-04:002017-08-15T10:33:43.189-04:00Love All Bodies Art Show Opening August 19th at Toronto Etsy Street Team Gallery<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Come join us this Saturday, August 19th, from 6:00 to 9:00 for the Opening of the <b>Love All Bodies Show</b>. This show celebrates all human bodies and features new work from artists in various media including drawing, photography, printmaking, multimedia, textile art, and bronze sculpture. Guest curator Rebecca Rose Vaughan writes, "<i><span lang="EN-CA">This exhibition aims to bring together a diverse and inclusive representation of all bodies through intersectional, body positive, progressive, and political work. ALL bodies deserve space and positive representation. We aim to create space to represent people that are particularly subject to systems of oppression and discrimination because their bodies are different. We highly encourage all POC, genderqueer, female identifying, trans persons, those with disabilities and queer people, to submit. Let us create new conversations about what it means to love our bodies specifically in a society where most are taught not to."</span></i><br />
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<tr><td><i><a href="https://www.etsy.com/people/Faunalia" target="_blank">Tara Holtom</a></i></td><td><br /></td><td><br /></td><td><i><a href="http://carlywhitmore.format.com/untitled-gallery" target="_blank">Carly Whitmore</a></i></td></tr>
<tr><td><a href="http://lesiamiga.format.com/scars-of-turmoil" target="_blank"><i>Lesia Miga</i></a></td><td><br /></td><td><br /></td><td><a href="http://www.yahn.format.com/" target="_blank"><i>Yahn Nemirovsky</i></a></td></tr>
<tr><td><a href="https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B67VM4X2RhjXTmlTUE83dXhqa00" target="_blank"><i>Rron Maloku</i></a></td><td><br /></td><td><br /></td><td><a href="https://ursa-major-plus.myshopify.com/collections/merch" target="_blank"><i>Amarina Norris & Ron Caddigan</i></a></td></tr>
<tr><td><i><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/slh62" target="_blank">Sharon Hafner</a></i></td><td><br /></td><td><br /></td><td><i><a href="http://svbusyknitting.weebly.com/crude-plushies.html" target="_blank">Stephanie Venerus</a></i></td></tr>
<tr><td><a href="http://www.rebecca-rose.ca/cyanotypes" target="_blank"><i>Rebecca Rose Vaughan</i></a></td><td><br /></td><td><br /></td><td><a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/minouette" target="_blank"><i>Ele Willoughby</i></a></td></tr>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7622472899382420396.post-5302302912101312672017-07-25T14:31:00.000-04:002017-07-25T14:31:54.807-04:00Found Wood Assemblage Earth and Planetary Science<br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://ronvanderende.nl/" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="http://ronvanderende.nl" border="0" data-original-height="1023" data-original-width="1000" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhn4UFU1NWoJI6fwJCsjnucsAdwypTQShyphenhyphenBgo4MdG9EesWE9g0hqvzlcqjg6yablyYRgDBoH6pnHq1KjdG4vOv8k88fwJwBBKk43MajlPeM9meFPGRDinhpIwq25Lym2Zb-YYFpXsoULyc/s640/ron-1.jpg" width="624" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Veneer Theory, Ron van der Ende, 2014. Bas-relief in salvaged wood, 60″ x 61″ x 6″.</td></tr>
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Dutch artist <a href="http://ronvanderende.nl/">Ron van der Ende</a> wanders the streets of Rotterdam, salvaging unwanted wood to make, amongst other delightful, enormous multimedia works, wood assemblages like giant diagrams of our Earth, celestial bodies and geological cross-sections.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Europa, Ron van der Ende, 2015. Bas-relief in salvaged wood, 168 x 168 x 14cm</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Volcano (Moses and Geology), Ron van der Ende, 2012, Bas-relief in salvaged wood, 229 x 152 x 12cm</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Watershed (Yosemite), Ron van der Ender, 2013, <span class="regular">Bas-relief in salvaged wood, 180 x 200 x 12cm.</span> </td></tr>
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Don't miss <a href="http://ronvanderende.nl/">his portfolio</a>, where you'll also find minerals, gems, spaceships and more.<br />
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7622472899382420396.post-61921418786273257032017-06-14T20:50:00.000-04:002017-06-14T20:50:21.318-04:00Insect as Canvas, Real and ImaginaryYesterday I encountered the work of two different artists using insects as a medium onto which they are building their art.<br />
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Japanese artist <a href="https://www.artsy.net/artwork/akihiro-higuchi-collection">Akihiro Higuchi</a> (also <a href="https://ocula.com/artists/higuchi-akihiro/">here</a>) has created works like traditional Japanese lacquerware on beetles and painted on moths in patterns reminiscent of traditional Japanese-style <i>Nihonga </i>painting, Japanese washi papers as well as more kitschy vintage cartoon illustrations.<br />
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<tr align="left"><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Akihiro Higuchi, </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">"MITATE - urushi" Hideyoshi Toyotomi - Hanbei Takenaka<span class="oc-date">, 2015</span></span></h2>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"> Stag beetle specimen, Japanese lacquer, gold dust, silver dust, mixed media <br />
25 x 20 x 6 cm</span></td><td class="tr-caption"></td><td class="tr-caption"></td></tr>
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<tr align="left"><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Akihiro Higuchi, </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">"MITATE - urushi" Mitsuari Ishida - Sakon Shima<span class="oc-date">, 2015</span></span></h2>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"> Stag beetle specimen, Japanese lacquer, gold dust, silver dust, mixed media <br />
25 x 20 x 6 cm</span></td><td class="tr-caption"></td><td class="tr-caption"></td></tr>
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<tr align="left"><td class="tr-caption">Akihiro Higuchi, <b><span class="artwork-metadata__title"><i>Collection</i>, 2007</span></b><br />
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Meanwhile, UK illustrator <a href="http://richard-wilkinson.com/mainsite/">Richard Wilkinson</a> has a series of digital illustrations, so realistic in flavour they (at least at first glance) appear to be painted on insects. They are in fact imaginary insects which resemble pop icons. His delightful collection <span><span><em>"Arthropoda Iconicus: Invertebrates From A Far Away Galaxy</em>" allude to Star Wars of course. He expects the book to be released this fall.</span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Richard Wilkinson, '<i>Dokk volgatus</i>'</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Richard Wilkinson, <i>'Regio Tutanamentum'</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Richard Wilkinson, '<i>Roboduobus Duoduobus</i>'</td></tr>
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<span><span>I love the intersection of art, entomology, culture and the imagination and how each of these artists are bringing their own cultural touchstones to the medium of insect decoration.</span></span><br />
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<span><span>Compare this with where <a href="http://magpieandwhiskeyjack.blogspot.ca/2012/09/where-entomology-meets-fashion.html">entomology meets fashion</a>.</span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7622472899382420396.post-5525069671461818752017-05-12T20:26:00.000-04:002017-05-12T20:26:23.934-04:00WUNDERKAMMER: The Cabinet of Curiosity Show<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I'm very excited to have curated the Toronto Etsy Street Team Gallery's first group art show, <i><b>WUNDERKAMMER: The Cabinet of Curiosities</b></i> from <b>May 11 to 28</b>. This art - or science art - show, is inspired by the <i>Wunderkammer</i>
or Cabinet of Curiosity, the immense, eccentric, encyclopedic
natural history collections gathered by collectors since the
Renaissance. Cabinets of Curiosities featured treasured zoological,
botanical, anatomical, fossil and gem specimen, collected by early
citizen scientists. <i><b>WUNDERKAMMER </b></i>features original
sculptures, drawings, hand-bound books, prints, paintings,
printmaking, ceramics, jewellery, generative and multimedia specimen
of natural and unnatural history on all scales, from the microscopic
to the macroscopic. We are featuring the work of local artists (myself
included):<br />
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<tr><td><i>István Aggott Hönsch</i></td><td><br /></td><td><br /></td><td><i>Erin Candela</i></td></tr>
<tr><td><i>Gavin Canning</i></td><td><br /></td><td><br /></td><td><i>Andrée Chénier </i></td></tr>
<tr><td><i>Carolyn Eady</i></td><td><br /></td><td><br /></td><td><i>Leslie Fruman</i></td></tr>
<tr><td><i>Monika Millar</i></td><td><br /></td><td><br /></td><td><i>Heather Ibbott</i></td></tr>
<tr><td><i>Colleen Manestar</i></td><td><br /></td><td><br /></td><td><i>Peggy Muddles </i></td></tr>
<tr><td><i>Teodora Opris</i></td><td><br /></td><td><br /></td><td><i>Christine Strait-Gardner</i></td></tr>
<tr><td><i>Tosca Teran </i></td><td><br /></td><td><br /></td><td><i>Rovena Tey</i></td></tr>
<tr><td><i>Lauren Vartanian </i></td><td><br /></td><td><br /></td><td><i>Ele Willoughby</i></td></tr>
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Explore our curiousity cabinet of wildlife biology, mathematics,
chemistry, mycology, micro and cellular biology, marine biology,
entomology, botany, and fantastical lifeforms through the lens of art.<br />
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Join us Saturday, May 13, 6:00 pm to 10:00 for our Opening! FOLLOW THE LINK TO RSVPUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7622472899382420396.post-85648672251882332552017-03-14T22:55:00.000-04:002017-03-14T22:55:19.042-04:00Pi in the sky<div style="height: 0; padding-bottom: 56.25%; position: relative;">
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Today we celebrate π day, because (non-metric) Americans write the date 3/14, like the first three digits of the digital expansion of the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter. Enjoy with some mathy Kate Bush and yet another incredible math-art work about pi by <a href="http://fineartamerica.com/profiles/martin-krzywinski.html?tab=artworkgalleries&artworkgalleryid=719079">Martin Krzywinski</a>. This year he's translated the 12,000,000 digits of Pi into star charts (by taking blocks of 12 digits and using them as latitude, longitude and azimuth). Then he's selected 80 constellations from these imagined stars and named them after extinct plants and animals. Find more <a href="http://fineartamerica.com/profiles/martin-krzywinski.html?tab=artworkgalleries&artworkgalleryid=719079">here</a>!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Martin Krzywinski's <a href="http://fineartamerica.com/featured/2017-pi-day-star-chart-carree-projection-martin-krzywinski.html" style="color: inherit; font: inherit; text-decoration: inherit;">2017 Pi Day Star Chart Carree Projection</a><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7622472899382420396.post-1054149531868602172016-10-11T16:15:00.000-04:002016-10-11T16:15:05.559-04:00Ursula Franklin for Ada Lovelace Day #ALD16<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Ursula Franklin</i>, linocut, 11" x 14" by Ele Willoughby, 2016</td></tr>
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<i>Cross-posted from the minouette blog </i><br />
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This year, to celebrate the international celebration of the achievements of women in science, technology, engineering and math, <a href="http://findingada.com/">Ada Lovelace Day</a> (ALD16), I am returning again to my first subject: <i><b>Ursula Franklin</b></i> (16 September 1921 – 22 July 2016). Every year since 2009, people have devoted the 2nd Tuesday in October to blogging about (and otherwise celebrating) the under-recognized and under-appreciated women who have made pivotal contributions to STEM throughout history, in the name of Countess Ada Lovelace. (I hope you'll all recall, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Lovelace">Ada</a>, brilliant proto-software engineer, daughter of absentee father, the mad, bad, and dangerous to know, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Gordon_Byron,_6th_Baron_Byron">Lord Byron</a>, she was able to describe and conceptualize software for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Babbage">Charles Babbage's</a> computing engine, before the concepts of software, hardware, or even Babbage's own machine existed! She foresaw that computers would be useful for more than mere number-crunching. For this she is rightly recognized as visionary - at least by those of us who know who she was. She figured out how to compute <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernoulli_numbers">Bernouilli numbers</a> with a Babbage analytical engine. Tragically, she died at only 36.)<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A preliminary mock-up of one of the Phylo cards<br />
in this new Women in Science and Engineering set<br />
featuring my portrait of today's namesake: Ada Lovelace</td></tr>
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I began participating in Ada Lovelace Day in 2010, and I knew immediately I should write about <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ursula_Franklin">Ursula Franklin</a>. For me she really personifies the goals of ALD; not only did she represent excellence in science and engineering, but she was a great, perhaps even visionary, thinker on the very role of technology in our society, as well as a fearless and tireless advocate for women in STEM, peace and social justice. Her research interests and achievements were clearly guided by her principles, including gathering evidence of the harmful health effects of radiation from atmospheric testing of nuclear weapons to or her work on the political and societal impacts of support of the technologies and their use. When she died earlier this year, I wrote about her life, work and how she has been one of my heroes since I was too young to fully appreciate the importance of role models in my scientific career. Her influence as a roll model of women in physics and engineering here cannot be overstated. She was one of the most impressive people I have ever met. I got some encouragement from friends to do something I had long contemplated: add her portrait to my growing collection of scientists. When I finally sat down to do so this September, I was really tickled to open my email and receive a commission to do precisely that! I'm really pleased to say I'm going to be contributing some artwork to latest edition of the <a href="https://popperfont.net/2014/11/27/the-women-in-science-and-engineering-card-game-grant-for-your-reading-pleasure/">Phylo Project</a> from Dave Ng and the Advanced Molecular Biology Laboratory (the science education facility within the Michael Smith Laboratories, UBC): a trading card game about Women in Science and Engineering! Sometimes you get several hints of what work you should do next; this portrait's time clearly had arrived. <br />
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Franklin was born in Munich in 1921 and survived being interned by the Nazis. She received her PhD in physics from the Technical University of Berlin in 1948 and immigrated to Canada, where after a post-doc at U of T, she joined the faculty. She pioneered archeometry - the use of modern materials analysis in archeology, dating prehistoric artifacts made of metals and ceramics. In my portrait I include an image of an ancient Chinese ding vessel to represent both her metallurgical research and archeometry and her writing about "prescriptive" versus "holistic" technologies used in mass production versus technologies used by craft workers and artisans. Her science was always engaged with societal concerns. During the 60s she advocated for the atmospheric nuclear test ban treaty, citing her studies of strontium-90 radioactive fallout found in children's teeth. Strontium-90 (<sup><span style="font-size: xx-small;">90</span></sup>Sr) is called a "bone-seeker" because biochemically it behaves like calcium and when absorb it in our bodies what isn't excreted finds its way to our bones. Thus, this radioactive product of nuclear fission (for instance, in atmospheric tests of nuclear weapons) is particularly dangerous and can cause cancers. It decays by beta decay, giving off electrons, as shown by the child's tooth in my portrait. During the 70s she was part of the Science Council of Canada investigation of how we could better conserve resources and protect nature. She began to develop her ideas about complexities of modern technological society.<br />
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She consistently has stood up for her beliefs in peace and social justice. As a member of the Voice of Women (now called Canadian Voice of Women for Peace), she tried to persuade Parliament to disengage Canada from supplying any weapons to the US during the Vietnam war, to shift funding from weapons research to preventative medicine, to withdraw from NATO and disarm. She later fought to allow conscientious objectors to redirect part of their income taxes from military uses to peaceful purposes (though the Supreme Court declined to hear the associated case). She joined other retired female faculty in a class action law suit against the University of Toronto for claiming it had been unjustly enriched by paying women faculty less than comparably qualified men. The University settled in 2002 and acknowledged that there had been gender barriers and pay discrimination.<br />
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As an applied scientist, her writings on technology benefit from the insight of an insider, but her priorities are justice and peace and she critiques and analyses technology in this light. She does not view technology as neutral; it is a comprehensive system that includes methods, procedures, organization, "and most of all, a mindset". It can be work-related or control-related, holistic and prescriptive. Franklin argues that the dominance of prescriptive technologies in modern society discourages critical thinking and promotes "a culture of compliance". She investigated the relationship between technology and power. She investigated how we interact with communication technologies and advocated for the right to silence - long before our contemporary concern with these issues. <br />
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Many of her articles and speeches on pacifism, feminism, technology and teaching are collected in <i>The Ursula Franklin Reader</i> (2006). A nod to her pacifism and feminism is built into the structure of her portrait which encompasses the symbols for peach and women in the negative space. Franklin is one of many respected scholars and thinkers to have delivered a series of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massey_Lectures">Massey Lectures</a>, in 1989. Hers were gathered and published as <a href="http://books.google.ca/books?hl=en&lr=&id=8qoYW9KuOvsC&oi=fnd&pg=PR7&dq=Ursula+Franklin&ots=7kwg9APC7R&sig=9UDll6qCmEFAZG862IcsCXQxxcI#v=onepage&q=&f=false"><i>The Real World of Technology</i></a>. She has been recognized for her work in many ways, including receiving the Order of Canada, <a href="http://archive.gg.ca/honours/awards/gga/index_e.asp">Governor General's Award in Commemoration of the Persons Case</a> for promoting the equality of girls and women in Canada and the <a href="http://www.unac.org/en/news_events/pearson/2001.asp">Pearson Medal of Peace</a> for her work in advancing human rights. She was inducted into the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Science_and_Engineering_Hall_of_Fame" title="Canadian Science and Engineering Hall of Fame">Canadian Science and Engineering Hall of Fame</a> in 2012. Locals may know the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ursula_Franklin_Academy">Ursula Franklin Academy</a>, a Toronto high school, named in her honour. I think this University, city, country and in fact, society at large were made a better place because Ursula Franklin was a part of it. So, though she has received this recognition, I think she should be a household name, so that's why I am happy to add her to my portrait pantheon of scientists and write about her again this Ada Lovelace Day 2016. I also think that it is very apt to combine making her portrait using holistic technologies of the artisan and sharing it through more prescriptive digital technologies with the world.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">(NB: much of the biographical information is recycled from my own previous post about Franklin) .</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7622472899382420396.post-73931542321670717642016-04-02T09:30:00.000-04:002016-04-02T09:30:17.992-04:00Metamorphosis and Maria Sibylla Merian; Backyard Butterflies to New World Entomological Explorer<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<tr align="left"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.etsy.com/ca/listing/253479063/maria-sibylla-merian-linocut-portrait-of"><i>Maria Sibylla Merian</i></a>, linocut by Ele Willloughby, 2015. <br />
Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717), leading entomologist of her day, <br />
traveller and scientific illustrator is shown complete with <br />
pomegranate branch and the life cycle of a butterfly from <br />
caterpillar, to chrysalis in its cocoon to butterfly, inspired by<br />
her famous work '<i>Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium</i>'<br />
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Born April 2, 1647, Maria Sibylla Merian was the leading entomologist of her day, a great traveller and scientific illustrator. The German-born naturalist came from a Swiss family who founded one of one of Europe's largest publishing houses in the 17th century. This allowed her early access to many books on natural history. After she lost her father at age three, and her mother remarried still life painter Jacob Marrel. Her step-father and his students trained her as an artist. She began painting insects and plants by 13. She wrote, "<i>I spent my time investigating insects. At the beginning, I started with silk worms in my home town of Frankfurt. I realized that other caterpillars produced beautiful butterflies or moths, and that silkworms did the same. This led me to collect all the caterpillars I could find in order to see how they changed</i>".<br />
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She married her step-father's apprentice Johann Andreas Graff, they had a daughter Johanna Helena, and moved to his home city of Nurenburg. She was able to contribute to the family income by painting, creating embroidery designs, and teaching drawing lessons to unmarried daughters of wealthy families, something which also allowed her access to the finest gardens where she continued collecting and documenting. She published her first book of natural illustrations, titled Neues Blumenbuch, in 1675 at age 28. In 1679, she first published her insect research in a two-volume, illustrated book focusing on insect metamorphosis. She moved twice to be with her mother after her step-father's death, then to join her half-brother at a Labadist religious community. She also split with her husband. After her mother's death, she moved to Amsterdam in 1691 and divorced her husband in 1692.<br />
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In Amsterdam, she was able to observe some of the collections of insects which had been brought back from Suriname. She became curious whether the life cycles of the exotic butterflies and other insects mirrored those Europe species she knew well. She was able to secure the city of Amsterdam's permission and and travel grant to travel to Suriname in South America, along with her younger daughter Dorothea Maria. She further funded her travels by selling 255 paintings. She planned a five year mission to study insects, making her perhaps the first person to plan a proper scientific expedition!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Maria Sibylla Merian, from<br />
<span class="mw-mmv-source-author"><span class="mw-mmv-source"><i>Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium</i>, Plate LX. 1705</span></span></td></tr>
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She travelled throughout the colony sketching insects and plants. She criticized the Dutch planters treatment of indigenous people and black slaves (though she relied upon amerindian slaves in her residence and her excursions, and brought a young amerindian woman named Indianin back with her to Holland). She used local native names for the plants and described local uses. Malaria likely cut her expedition short and forced her return to the Dutch Republic in 1701. She sold her collected specimen and in 1705 she published a book <i>Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium</i> about the insects of Suriname.<br />
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She suffered a stroke in 1715 which left her partially paralysed and died a pauper in 1717. Her daughter Dorothea published <i>Erucarum Ortus Alimentum et Paradoxa Metamorphosis</i>, a collection of her mother's work, posthumously. Both Dorothea and Johanna followed their mother's lead and became botanical illustrators.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Copper engraving from Maria Sibylla Merian's <br />
<span class="mw-mmv-title"><i>Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium</i>, Plate XLIX. </span></td></tr>
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Modern scholars now appreciate her pioneering scientific work as well as the beauty of her scientific illustrations. During her life time insects were still reviled and people still put credence in the Aristotelian idea that they were spontaneously generated or "born of mud". She meanwhile detailed the life cycle of 186 species and explained the poorly-understood or even unknown process of metamorphosis. Science was conducted in Latin and her publications were in the vernacular, making them more popular with high society than contemporary scientists. Despite her knowledge and original research contributions she was not really recognized as a scientist in her day (though Carl Linnæus (1707-1778), father of taxonomy, did cite her in his <i>Systema Naturæ</i> of 1753). It was very unusual for a woman in her day to pursue science, let alone travel the world in its pursuit. She was able to do so because she began her studies with the accessible - animals she could find in her own backyard, and become the leading expert on metamorphosis. During her great expedition, she also noted their habitats, feeding habits and uses to indigenous people. Her classification of butterflies and moths are still relevant today. She detailed plants, frogs, snakes, spiders, iguanas, and tropical beetles and was the first European to describe both army ants and leaf cutter ants as well as their effect on other organisms.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Speckled caiman and a false coral snake by Maria Sibylla Merian <br />
<span class="mw-mmv-source-author"><span class="mw-mmv-source">from <i>Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium II.</i>, Plate LXX.</span></span></td></tr>
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Her work had a strong influence on future scientific illustration. Her work shows great accuracy and she was the first to illustrate the complete life cycle of insects. In her time, funding her expedition and her unladylike devotion to insects was ridiculed, but she is remembered as one of the best insect and flower illustrators of all time. Her daughters and student Rachel Ruysch (1664-1750) all went on to be renown botanical illustrators.<br />
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Shortly after her death, Peter the Great saw and purchased a large number of her works in Amsterdam. Her portrait was printed on the 500 DM note before Germany converted to the euro. Her portrait has also appeared on a 0.40 DM stamp and two American 32 cent stamps. Many schools, place names, a scientific research vessel and a crater on Venus have been named in her honour.<br />
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One last tidbit (or two) for you history of science buffs: Dorothea's daughter, Maria Sibylla Merian's granddaughter married mathematician Leonhard Euler (1707-1783). Maria Sibylla Merian was also first cousin to Jacob Christoph Le Blon (1667-1741), painter and engraver who invented the four colour printing process (using an RYBK color model similar to the modern CMYK system). Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7622472899382420396.post-11720665103389253302016-02-29T17:42:00.000-05:002016-02-29T17:42:46.098-05:00Take the Diversity of Bees over Oscar Fashion<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Last year, I really enjoyed bringing you the <a href="http://magpieandwhiskeyjack.blogspot.ca/2015/02/nudibranch-fashion-jellyfish-couture.html">best in nudibranch Oscar fashion</a>. So, I thought this year I might try the bees. After all, bees have tremendous diversity (unlike Oscar nominees), though you may only be able to name the honeybee (which isn't even native to North America) and the bumblebee (and there are in fact several different bumblebees). The ecological health of pollinators is of great concern, but it's isn't all about honeybees. In any region, the native bees are often the most important pollinators and few are familiar with their incredible variety. So enjoy the great beauty and astounding colours of these bees, glam enough for the red carpet. Maybe you'll recognize some from the nearest garden.<br />
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Learn more about bees of this part of the world at Resonating Bodies. Check out the great Bee Tribes of the World from York University for a sense of the staggering variation in bees. For a wonderful collection of photos of specimen, follow the <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/usgsbiml/">USGS Bee Inventory and Monitoring Lab on flickr</a>.<br />
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You can also find my own artwork <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/22611996@N02/albums/72157631821546230">about the biodiversity of bees here</a> and <a href="https://www.etsy.com/ca/shop/minouette/search?search_query=bee&order=date_desc&view_type=gallery&ref=shop_search">here</a>. If you also make art about bees, let me know and check out this call for artists for an upcoming <a href="http://www.artthatmoves.ca/2014/02/beesthebirdsartshow/">show about and for bees</a>.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Alicia Vikander dressed as <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/usgsbiml/15166952535/in/photolist-p3EQRR-ceNgA1-tamkgv-djHapa-p3jXmb-oJf7Di-ddMBU4-p6Zfck-p3psGM-p7dzDw-dgXyRm-pF7XR1-p7fAzD-oJfavv-poybcT-qvPMbK-cy8NZb-cCZjBm-rsB92v-dvPmaP-dvUUSq-dvPkFV-AfsR1y/">Xylocopa India</a>, a yellow carpenter bee from India</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://hollywoodlife.com/pics/oscars-best-dressed-2016-academy-awards-dresses-fashion/#!11/rachel-mcadams-oscars-best-dressed-2016/">Rachel McAdams</a> dressed as <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/usgsbiml/16292752499/in/photolist-qPJBFR-dKzxrM-cegwM5-ovbMgG-r2Mumn-qFvmBS-qgf43f-dS85nd-oqNpdY-otXgNY-pK6hSW-qQKfmG-dKF1ch-f1zjza-qJeS3A-qDw19R-pK39Dq-p5D4yf-qPJBwn-dKzxkZ-doTjcq-rbUFy7-jCHApU-osz5LQ-eRVwbA-cXr9jU-obhyL1-r1HyDN-qxZQja-q5d66T-rDZGz7-pK4t8g-r123ZC-894tk3-nGP9nQ-jEzfnJ-oDzDKz-osKFQf-dfbxbe-cXr3eY-nZourT-oDAoMA-dgh7oP-dHoBc1-q5nHdt-rsB92v-r2GzX9-csfxAC-fWQzps-pYg9bo">Augochlora buscki</a>, a Puerto Rican bee</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://hollywoodlife.com/pics/worst-dressed-oscars-fashion-2016-red-carpet-dresses/#!3/kate-winslet-oscars-best-dressed-2016-2/">Kate Winslet</a> dressed as the all black leafcutter bee <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/usgsbiml/23242567379/in/dateposted/">Megachile xylocopoides </a></td></tr>
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