At the Azkuna Zentro, or Cultural Center, of Bilbao, Spain on November 29, 2022. The projected image is what visitors see at the entrance to the exhibit “Science Friction: Living with Companion Species,” the exhibition that was mounted in at the Center for Contemporary Culture of Barcelona in 2021. This time I was able to be there the opening press conference, meet the other artists, have lunch with the directors of both museums and fellow artists and attend a party that evening in the atrium of the Azkuna Zentroa, one a warehouse for thousands of wine and olive oil casks. The video animation of my single-celled creatures plays non-stop while the AZ is open.
Read MoreThe tubules seen here are metaphorical cornucopias overflowing with a few of Earth's endless life forms.
Read MoreWarm volcanic pools of water undergo continuous cycles of evaporation and then hydrating from precipitation
Read MoreThe Protocells Triptych is the fruit of my collaboration with David Deamer, Professor Emeritus, Department of Biomolecular Engineering at the University of California Santa Cruz and world expert in origins of life research. The collaboration began in 2021 and culminated in the pastels being displayed in the Kenneth S. Norris Center for Natural History at UCSC.
Read MorePrim-no-more English nanny, Mary Poppins, is really a beneficent Fairy Godmother and powerful Queen of the Night who wears red shoes and a red hat and carries a magical light-emitting red umbrella.
Read MoreThis year “Science Friction” is showing at the Azkuna Zentroa cultural center in Bilbao
Read MoreInspired by the work of the great geoscientist and microbiologist, Shoshanah Dubiner’s painting "Endosymbiosis: Homage to Lynn Margulis," (©2012) depicts our most ancient bacterial ancestors as they merged and eventually became one-celled eukaryotic organisms.
Read MoreSupported by her sturdy red shoes, she is free to move, free to dance, free to follow the wild swans.
Read MoreFeet free of shoes, the easier to leap through the air.
Read MoreWhen you’re standing on a bee’s hairy head, its multi-faceted eye and moveable antenna look quite dramatic.
Read MoreHitch a ride on a bee’s foot and visit the land of an elderberry leaf.
Read MoreWant to collect pollen grains? Just visit a raspberry flower when its anthers are releasing their grains. You might even meet Colletes Willistoni, a bee with a split tongue that feeds both pollen and nectar to its young.
Read MoreCelebrating Arbor Day and Earth Day with Pollinator Art
Read MoreOrnithoceros, a one-celled, tropical marine animal, is propelled with a forward spiraling or whirling motion by its ribbed ‘wings’ and flagella.
Read MoreAn offering, a receiving, a blessing from earth, sky and water.
Read MoreThe Chthonic world of our ancestors.
Read MoreIn the beginning there was water.
Read MoreTeen-agers love to dance. The Rose Circle Mentoring Network, whose mission is to support and empower teen-agers through mentoring, is celebrating the opening of its new office with a showing of some of my artwork.
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