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Pollinator Week is a great time to share this print, which expresses the central theme of my work about the Future of Pollination for Manufactured Ecosystems. Our food sources & ecosystems around us are dependent on pollinators (mostly bees & other insects, some birds & mammals) but insects populations have lost huge numbers and many species altogether.šŸ§µ

#PollinatorWeek #nativeBees #entomology #ecology #sciart #insects #butterflies #beetles #moths #printmaking #linocut #ManufacturedEcosystems

As described this 16ā€ x 20ā€ linocut print combines gold text in a central circle reading ā€œOUR FATEā€ arching upwards, ā€œIS TIEDā€ horizontally across the middle, ā€œTO THAT OF THE INSECTSā€ arching downwards in two lines with insects. Clockwise from top: two leaf cutter bees (Megachile relativa and M. brevis), the Imperial moth (Eacles imperialis), the Virgin Tiger moth (Apantesis virgo), an Isabellaā€™s Longwings butterfly (Nymphalidae Eueides isabella), a blue orchard mason bee (Osmia lignaria), a firefly (Photinus pyralis), the rusty patched bumblebee (Bombus affinis), a white underwing moth (Catocala relicta), an eastern carpenter bee (Xylocopa virginica), a sweat bee (Agapostemon sericeus), a hummingbird clearwing moth (Hermaris thysbe), the common eastern bumblebee (B. impatiens), a long-horned bee (Melissodes sp.), a monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) and centre: eastern snail-shell nesting bee (O. conjuncta).
On an abstract background of teal and sand, black text on a white background reads, ā€˜Manufactured Ecosystems The Art and Science of Ecosystem Designā€™
#ecology #sciart #insects #entomology #beetles #printmaking #moths #butterflies #linocut #nativebees #pollinatorweek #manufacturedecosystems

Day 13 #ArtAdventCalendar: The vampire squid (Vampyroteuthis infernalis), literally the ā€˜vampire squid from hellā€™ is a small deep sea cephalopod found throughout temperate and tropical oceans with two long retractile filaments, located between the first two pairs of arms on its dorsal side, unlike either octopuses or squids. šŸ§µ1/2

#cephalopod #linocut #sciart #mastoArt #printmaking #VampireSquid #squid

This is a hand-carved and hand-printed lino block print on delicate ivory Japanese mulberry paper, 9.25ā€ x 12.5ā€ of a vampire squid (Vampyroteuthis infernalis). The ā€˜vampire squid from hellā€™ is a small deep sea cephalopod found throughout temperate and tropical oceans with two long retractile filaments, located between the first two pairs of arms on its dorsal side, unlike either octopuses or squids. The squid is upside down with purple head and yellow tent like areas between its legs. The filaments arc around above against the blue background.
#mastoart #sciart #printmaking #cephalopod #squid #linocut #ArtAdventCalendar #vampiresquid

Happy birthday to #physicist Lise Meitner (1878-1968) who explained #nuclear #fission. She worked with chemists Hahn & StraƟmann in 30s Berlin, investigating whether there were any stable elements beyond uranium. They discovered bombarding nucleus of U-235 with neutrons actually triggered it to fission, or break, into 2 nuclei of roughly half the size & some free neutrons! Hahnā€™s chemistry lead to startling discovery of barium,šŸ§µ

#linocut #printmaking #sciart #histsci #womenInSTEM ā  #MastoArt

My linocut print of Lise Meitner holding her glasses in one hand, while leaning on the other, in silver ink. In red ink is a nuclear fission chain reaction shown with a single neutron (white ball with motion lines) emanating from her head towards a nucleus (conglomerate of red proton and white neutron balls) then an arrow to it fissioning (becoming split into two adjacent then two separate halves with extra free neutrons). These neutrons in turn all begin the same process with other nuclei and the chain reaction takes up the left side of the print next to Meitner.
#mastoart #WomenInSTEM #sciart #nuclear #printmaking #linocut #histsci #physicist #fission

6 Ɨ 8ā€ linocut relief print, CC BY 4.0

#linocut #printmaking #InternetArchive

Black ink linocut print of a person in a dress reaching for a book on a large bookshelf. Above is ā€œFree people read freelyā€; below is ā€œDefend the Internet Archiveā€.
#internetarchive #printmaking #linocut

Happy birthday to #neurologist Santiago RamĆ³n y Cajal (1852 - 1934), here in front of Purkinje and granule cells from a pigeon, based on one of his own drawings! Cajal &Golgi won the Nobel in 1906, "in recognition of their work on the structure of the nervous system". He was as much of an artist as he was a scientist & his 100s of drawings are still used for teaching purposes.ā 
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#sciart #linocut #printmaking #histstm #PurkinjeCell #neuroscience #MastoArt
My linocut portrait of Cajal in a gradient of gold (left, where there is a table and microscope) to blue (right, where he is) . Behind him is an image based on his drawing of a Purkinje and granule cell of a pigeon in a gradient of gold to black.
#mastoart #sciart #neuroscience #printmaking #histstm #linocut #neurologist #purkinjecell

Happy birthday to #geochemist Charles David Keeling (1928 - 2005) whose decades long observations of CO2 in air samples from Mauna Loa Observatory were some of the 1st direct data to show the human contribution to greenhouse effect & global warming. The 'Keeling Curve' (in copper & red) shows both the seasonal variations (the wiggles) & the strong upward trend with time as the greenhouse gas built up in the atmosphere. šŸ§µ1/

#linocut #printmaking #climateChange #geochemistry #sciart #MastoArt

Linocut portrait of Keeling in teal with geochemical sampling tools with the Keeling curve in copy and axes (vertical: CO2 fraction micro-mol/mol from 325 to 400 and horizontal: Year 1960 to 2000).
#mastoart #climatechange #sciart #printmaking #linocut #geochemist #geochemistry

Happy birthday to #biochemist Marie Maynard Daly (1921-2003), 1st Black woman to earn a PhD in #chemistry in the US! She made important research contributions to our understanding of the biochemisty of the cell nucleus & cardiovascular issues & the chemistry of histones & protein synthesis. She established that "no bases other than adenine, guanine, thymine, and cytosine were present in appreciable amounts" in DNA - #womenInSTEM #BlackInSTEM #histstm #printmaking #linocut #histmed #HeartDisease
My linocut portrait of Marie Maynard Daly in purples (sheā€™s a young m, smiling Black woman, wearing earrings, a necklace and a dress, looking at the viewer over her shoulder). Above her to the right is an anatomical heart with a blowout diagram in a circle of a clogged artery and the cholesterol molecule all in red. Next to her on the left in blue are the molecules of the bases which make up DNA and a diagram of a human cell.
#chemistry #WomenInSTEM #heartdisease #biochemist #printmaking #blackinstem #histstm #histmed #linocut

Happy birthday to Antonie van Leeuwenhoek (1632 ā€“ 1723), the Dutch scientist & progenitor of #microbiology known for his improvements to microscope tech. He was a draper in Delft, then a politician with an interest in lensmaking. Using his handmade #microscopes, he was 1st to observe microorganisms, which he called tiny animals, or "animalcules". He also made pioneering microscopic observations on muscle fibres, bacteria, coffee & ā€¦ šŸ§µ1/n

#linocut #printmaking #sciart #histstmā  #MastoArt

My linocut portrait of van Leeuwenhoek in burgundy wearing a wig, narrow moustache, loose robe and neck scarf, holding his invention, a microscope. Heā€™s surrounded by his microscopic observations, ā€œanimaculesā€, blood vessels and more, in gold, orange, green and yellow.
#mastoart #sciart #microbiology #printmaking #histstm #microscopes #linocut

First photogravure print!
#photography #art #printmaking #print
#art #Photography #printmaking #print

Album artwork I made for Swiss sludge/black metal band Wizards of Wiznan! Releases on the 30th.

#art #mastoart #illustration #printmaking

Landscape etching. Mountain river.
#art #illustration #mastoart #printmaking

An extraordinary pharmaceutical #chemist to celebrate for #BlackHistoryMonth - Alice Ball (1892-1916) who developed 1st effective treatment for #leprosy. Her research saved 1000s from exile & painful, ineffective lifelong treatment for leprosy, & she was a trailblazer for both women & Black scientists.ā 
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Ball studied #chemistry at UW earning a BSc & 2nd degree in pharmacy 2 years later.

#printmaking #sciart #BlackInSTEM #womenInSTEM #histstm

Linocut portrait of pharmaceutical chemist Alice Ball, a young Black woman in a lab coat, printed in indigo. Below her is the chemical reaction for Ballā€™s Process in violet. Above and around her is a branch of chalmoogra with green leaves and yellow fruit.
#chemistry #WomenInSTEM #sciart #blackhistorymonth #chemist #leprosy #printmaking #blackinstem #histstm

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