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Please join us Friday, July 15th from 10am to 3pm for the opening reception of Fantastic Empiricism: The Science of Mesocosms and the Expression of Light featuring the final print installation Colorcosm, in conjunction with Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences’ annual open house.
Amidst preparations for the opening of the show I wanted to share my words shared with donors of the laboratory this past Tuesday the 5th. They offer a concise summary of what happened during the residency and why we did
You’ll notice that the form of the piece (fig. 1) resembles that of the mesocosm bag (fig. 2). As I mentioned in an earlier post I was struck very early on in my residency by the form and presence of
Before I share some thoughts on how/why we arrived at the final piece we did, I would like to share some images of it to help give readers a more illustrative sense of what I am referring to. The following
It’s June 24th and as of now we have completed our final installation and are preparing for the official unveiling and public opening in the first and second weeks of July, which in other words nearly marks the end of
Here’s a GIF I made using separate images made with the SEM of one tiny spot on one of my super-etched copper plates. The variation of images were produced by changing the scan speed and increasing/decreasing the noise reduction. As
I apologize such a long delay between my last post and now. I’ve been very busy in the studio as well as experimenting at the laboratory. I’m now on the last leg of my time at BLOS, with the deadline
Steve Archer and I recently reached out to fellow senior research scientist David Fields, whose work often involves larger (however, still quite small) organisms called copepods. Fields briefly showed me how to use one of his many microscopes–something I haven’t
Steve Archer and I take a trip to Ocean Point to collect some coralline algae “skeletons.”
Last week I had the pleasure of joining Senior Research Scientist, Steve Archer to Ocean Point just five minutes from the laboratory. We were looking for coralline algae that had washed ashore and deposited their white segmented calcium carbonate “skeletons.” Throughout