Process - Organisms

Here are some process shots of a lithography stone ready to print. I have etched it twice in hopes of good print run. As far as the content on the stone, these are some preliminary ideas for a fictionalized organism, which will be considered for my final image for thesis.

Burning Man

I will make it this year.

The Humboldt Squid

Acritarch

 

Acritach are small organic fossils from approximately 3200 years ago to the present.  Acritarchs are the remains of a wide range of quite different kinds of organisms such as the egg cases of small metazoans to resting cysts of many different kinds of chlorophyta, otherwise known as 'green algae'.

Cool.

Occupy the Infinite

 The work of Peter Kogler

"External Stimuli"

Toxoplasmosis Organisms

Caption: False-colour transmission electron micrograph of the trophozoite, or proliferative form, of the sporozoan Toxoplasma gondii. They appear as the large dark stained bodies enclosing numerous organelles. T. gondii causes toxoplasmosis in humans & is especially dangerous to pregnant women. Cats are the definitive host and all mammals including sheep & cattle may become infected. Only cats excrete the oocysts in their faeces, which contaminate the soil & cause the infection in humans & animals. Infection in man also occurs through undercooked meat, or direct contact. Magnification: x3000 at 35mm size.

Lesson: Don't chill out with cats when they are taking a number two. (Or sheep).

But it is pretty to see magnified.

Credit: MOREDUN ANIMAL HEALTH LTD/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY

Branching Morphogenesis

Peter Lloyd Jones, Andrew Lucia, Annette Fierro and Jenny E. Sab

This piece is a Simulation of networking endothelial cells cultured on a 3D matrix with more than 75,000 interconnected zip ties to show the complexity of an organic datascape and process.

Amazing...zip ties!

The entire piece is composed of just zip ties. Not only are zip ties amazing to play with, but to produces a remarkable detailed piece of art is, jaw dropping. 

I kind of want to crawl through these endothelial cells.