For #BrainAwarenessWeek I’m sharing my brainiest #SciArt #embroidery pieces. Here’s woman in skull (2016), not a brain per se, but the part of the skull where the brain sits, imagined as an architectural space.
For #BrainAwarenessWeek I’m sharing my brainiest #SciArt #embroidery pieces. Here’s woman in skull (2016), not a brain per se, but the part of the skull where the brain sits, imagined as an architectural space.
Happy birthday to botanist & photography trailblazer Anna Atkins (1799-1871), née Children!
Atkins’ mother died when she was still an infant, but she was close with her naturalist father & received a much more scientific education than was common for women in her time. Her 250 detailed engravings of shells were used to illustrate her father’s translation of Lamarck’s ‘Genera of Shells’; 1/n
Happy birthday to Caroline Herschel (1750 – 1848) a trail blazing woman in #astronomy. Hers was a real life Cinderella story, where rather than marrying a prince, she made a life and career for herself. Marriage her expected role but she was deemed unmarriageable, since a childhood bout of typhus stunted her growth. Her mother thought she should train to be a servant, & purposely stood in the way of her learning French, or music,
For #BrainAwarenessWeek I’m sharing my brainiest #SciArt #embroidery pieces. Here’s neuraesthenia (2017), a piece depicting the heaviness I feel during post-exertional malaise (PEM). PEM often starts in my cognition then spreads out through my body.
#WIPWednesday • I finished stitching my heart/vagus piece but need to wash and wet block it. I’ve only just started my next project so I’ll share that next week!
For #BrainAwarenessWeek I’m sharing my brainiest #SciArt #embroidery pieces. Here’s a detail from the wandering ghost (2024), my piece about the vagus nerve and my experiences with polyvagal theory.
You can read more about this piece here: https://liapas.com/2024/10/15/the-wandering-ghost/
Treatment: The ER’s Embrace
Inspiration for today's #inkyDsya drawing comes from cellular membranes and intramembranous proteins.
Here's an in-progress shot.
https://www.patreon.com/posts/123418451
https://ko-fi.com/Post/InkyDays-March-2025-N4N51BCM70
Sometimes, updating a Data Art piece is just too much of an emotional drain. And the piece must remain out of date.
But to be honest, that's part of the piece itself.
How Big is 400,000? https://kristinhenry.github.io/howBig/
I wrote a bit about the piece: https://kristinhenry.medium.com/how-big-is-400-000-922841dbc986
For #BrainAwarenessWeek I’m sharing my brainiest #SciArt #embroidery pieces. Here’s she was tributaries (2016), a depiction of the electrical storm I feel in my brain when I have cognitive fatigue from #MECFS.
Playing with my new inks in a floral network pattern in today's #inkyDays drawing. I also finished a larger piece on watercolor paper.
Here's an in-progress shot.
https://www.patreon.com/posts/123418451
https://ko-fi.com/Post/InkyDays-March-2025-N4N51BCM70
For #InternationalWomensDay a short thread of my ongoing series of portraits of women in science through history. If you look for them, they’re there. I’m up to 67 now! Here’s to the day when a scientist’s sex is no longer remarkable in any field!
A quick geometric pattern for today's #inkyDays drawing, before heading out for the Stand Up For Science rally here in San Francisco: https://standupforscience2025.org/
Playing with a network pattern for today's #inkyDays drawing.
Here's an in-progress shot.
https://www.patreon.com/posts/123418451
https://ko-fi.com/Post/InkyDays-March-2025-N4N51BCM70
Fresh new watercolor and ink #sciart all painted in February 2025. One of each, get yours! #art #painting https://artologica.etsy.com
It’s #WorldHearingDay to raise awareness about hearing health and accessibility. Here’s my #SciArt #embroidery of the cochlea/inner ear which I did while researching my symptoms of hyperacusis.
Years ago, I was asked to make a print for a missing element in a gallery show of the Periodic Table Printmaking Project, which gathered prints by different artists for each element . This small linocut represents the chemical element Silicon, with its diamond cubic crystal structure shown in silver. Its symbol, atomic number and a couple of its forms are shown in lilac. Silicon is common in the Earth’s crust 1/n