You can find everything from amoebas to E. Colli in these petri dishes from the Tommystinythings Etsy store.
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Erosion by Tamsin van Essen. Who knew parasitic invasion could be so beautiful?
van Essen on her project:
This work explores erosion and the disruption of form. Focusing on biological erosion, I wanted to convey the idea of a host being attacked and eaten away by a parasitic virus, highlighting the creeping spread of the infection as it corrupts the body. I have produced a series of angular porcelain forms, sandblasted to wear the surface and reveal inner strata. This aggressive process, contrarily, creates a delicate vulnerability in the shape. The translucency of the porcelain and the interruption of the surface make it possible to glimpse through to layers beneath, creating a tension between the seen and the obscured.
Computer Virus by Forrest McCluer is a series of sculptures made out of computer parts to resemble biological viruses. Click here to see the sculptures pictured next to the viruses they’re based on.
Japanese artist Mika Aoki uses the ethereal quality of glass to get us to look differently at subjects like viruses, reproduction and the origins of life.
Holiday gift alert! If you’re Secret Santa for somebody hooked on the Discovery channel’s doomsday programming or is otherwise enthralled by the idea that the Mayan calendar predicts our demise next year, The Apocalypse Ephemeris: Pretty Pictures of Various Doomsday Scenarios 2012 calendar should make the perfect gift. It’s probably too late to talk some sense into them, so why not give them something they’d really like this year?
This adorable DNA Replicating Chlorella Virus Plushie is available from the 5erg store on Etsy.
About:
Needle felted Chlorella virus PBCV , all it likes to do is sit in the nucleus and craft its new DNA without any distruption.
Love biology? Love art? Well, look no further than Artlogica’s store on Etsy.
Communicating Bacteria Dress and MRSA Quilt by Anna Dumitriu.
Dumitriu on her work:
Public understanding of science, in particular biomedical science and the ethics of emerging technologies is so important, particularly in terms of microbiology and I feel a responsibility to share the knowledge I acquire with the wider public. I feel strongly that anyone can understand anything if it’s explained in the right way for them. Many businesses play on public fears in order to add value to their products, and newspapers and TV shows fill our minds with images of bacteria as armies of tiny monsters ready to attack unless we buy some new hand wash or detergent. The press and its desire to sell newspapers can even sway political opinion at the highest level. I recently created indigo blue coloured patchwork quilt stained with MRSA bacteria grown on chromogenic agar and patterned with clinical antibiotics and other tools in the research and treatment of this disease. Each square on the quilt can be explained in terms of the research work that went into making it. The public are fascinated to come face to face with the famous ‘superbug’, but in the case of my work the piece has been sterilised (autoclaved) so it is no longer dangerous. Quilts are historically used as story telling devices and this piece tells the story of MRSA and facilitates dialogues.
She will be participating in the Cambridge Science Xchange on October 23.
Luke Jerram’s spectacular glass sculptures of viruses
About the Glasswork
The sculptures are designed in consultation with virologists from the University of Bristol, using a combination of different scientific photographs and models. They are made in collaboration with glassblowers Kim George, Brian Jones and Norman Veitch.The glass sculptures were created to contemplate the global impact of each disease and to consider how the artificial colouring of scientific imagery affects our understanding of these phenomena. Jerram is exploring the tension between the artworks’ beauty, what they represent and their impact on humanity.
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