Promise (from the Protocells Triptych)
Each protocell is like a microscopic experiment in which inanimate matter is finding ways to become alive. If you cut open a protocell, you will be looking at molecules made of atoms born over 4.5 billion years ago in exploding and colliding stars. As Car Sagan said, “We’re made of star stuff.”
Emergence (from the Protocells Triptych)
Warm volcanic pools of water undergo continuous cycles of evaporation and rehydration. During rehydration bi-layer sheets of lipid moleclules assemble into a gel and then into spheres called protocells. The gels and spheres contain the minerals and compounds already present in the water.
Life (from the Protocells Triptych)
Populations of protocells became alive when they evolved the ability to capture energy and nutrients from the environment, and then began to grow and reproduce. But long before that transition, the self-assembly of lipids into spherical compartments and tubules provided a structural foundation for the emergence of cellular life. Here, the tubules are seen as metaphorical cornucopias overflowing with a few of Earth's endless living species of bacteria, archaea, protists, algae, jellyfish and butterflies.
Patterns in Nature
Endosymbiosis: Homage to Lynn Margulis
In their book, What Is Life?, evolutionary biologist Lynn Margulis and Dorion Sagan address the question that humans have been asking for millennia. One of the answers they put forward is brilliantly poetic: "Life is planetary exuberance… the transmutation of Earth’s air, water and sun into cells… It is matter gone wild."
The painting Endosymbiosis: Homage to Lynn Margulis is intended to dazzle people with the beauty of the microbial world to which Lynn Margulis dedicated her career.
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Everything Is Burning
Painted in 2004. Prescient for the 2020 Alameda fire near my home in Ashland, Oregon. Much loss, much grief.
Cell
Molecular exchange within the cell takes place at mind-boggling speeds. This painting blurs the structure of the cell to emphasize its "frenzied" activity.
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Ode to the Eukaryote
More about this painting on my blog art and science part 1
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The Deep
More about this painting on my blog the deep.
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Membranes
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Cell Garden
More about this painting on my blog the amazing universe of the cell.
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Mother of Molecules
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Lichen Landscape
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Crown Jewels
The bright green cloroplasts of Gonyostomum, an alga common to acidic freshwater habitats, are arranged along the outer edge of the cell, like brilliant emeralds in a royal crown.
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Humans Explore a Lichen
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Man of War
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Nudibranchs on Parade
Important Conversation
More about this painting on my blog: in praise of water.
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Miracle of Connecting
more about this painting on my blog miracle of connecting
Chrysalis for Humanity
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Mendelson's Macrofibers Gone Wild
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Queen of Membranes 1
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Queen of Membranes 2
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Silk Neural Network
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Water Animal Mandala
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Mitochondria
Mitochondria once lived as independent bacteria. Today they inhabit all eukaryotic cells — cells of animals, plants, fungi and protoctists that have a nucleus— and use oxygen to convert food into energy. Mitochondria make it possible for us to stay alive by breathing in the Earth's atmosphere.
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Blue Cocoon
More about this painting on my blog patterns in nature: a visionary approach.
Fold Upon Fold
Begonia Woman
More about this painting on my blog the more-than-human world.
Cosmic Neural Network
Cells, polyps, nerves and bones all flowing in the cosmic stream of life.
Dance of the Whirling Seabirds
The beautiful creatures you see here are tiny single-celled plants that live in oceanic waters.
The Cell Never Rests #8
The Cell Never Rests #5
The Cell Never Rests #9
The Cell Never Rests #6
The Cell Never Rests #7
Homage to Lynn
The viscous world of one-celled organisms seen in my painting Endosymbiosis: Homage to Lynn Margulis is now inhabited by a warm-blooded woman holding two spirochetes, one in each hand. Or are they snakes? Is she Lynn or the ancient snake goddess of Crete?
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