Blastula

Roger Hiorns' Seizure from TateShots Issue 16

Carl Sagan explaining dimensions

loosening up (a tiny bit)

Ink Test

rare glimpses inside the ACME SPECTACLE FACTORY!!

tori of sticky cells made of triangles

16" x 20":
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chain of sticky cells made of triangles

hand drawn ink on paper

22.5" x 30"

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Microscope Era

Yesterday I was given perhaps my coolest Christmas present ever from my brother in law Rob Sylvain-- a stereo microscope. It is small, lit by LEDs, and is rechargeable and portable, so I can take it into the "field".  It has magnifications of 10x or 30x, unless I change the eyepieces, but this is suitable for my purposes, mostly to look at 3d objects and textures in more detail. This morning I was messing around with it and I discovered that I can hold my little Fuji Finepix J10 camera up to the eyepiece and actually focus on the magnified image, and take fairly decent pictures. So I pulled out my box of oddities-insects that died in the car, bones I found in a friend's garden, seaweed pods, things lots of people like me have around, and I went at it.