Ele Willoughby, PhD

Artist, printmaker and marine geophysicist.
Settler in Tkaronto (she/her)

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2025-04-16 12:32:48

Happy birthday to #biochemist Marie Maynard Daly (1921-2003), 1st Black woman to earn a PhD in #chemistry in the US! She made important research contributions to our understanding of the biochemisty of the cell nucleus & cardiovascular issues & the chemistry of histones & protein synthesis. She established that “no bases other than adenine, guanine, thymine, and cytosine were present in appreciable amounts” in DNA - 🧵
#womenInSTEM #BlackInSTEM #histsci #printmaking #linocut #histmed #MastoArt
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2025-04-14 11:42:59

April 14 has been designated World Quantum Day in honour of Planck’s Constant which can be rounded to h~ 4.14×10−15 eV·s (and some folks write April 14 as 4/14*). Planck’s constant comes up a lot in quantum mechanics; for instance a photon’s energy is h times its frequency). So I thought I would share Feynman Bauhaus. This linocut was inspired by the way the exuberant lines and shapes of Bauhaus paintings, like those of Wassily Kandinsky, reminded me Feynman diagrams showing particle reactions 🧵
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2025-04-12 13:17:27

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But, I think of my postdoc supervisor who used to make his research group practice talks & he’d sit at the back & say “Fewer words!” until folks learned to tell stories mainly with images. If people can see at a glance that we are linked with these, our tiny insect neighbours, I have done my job.
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2025-04-12 13:13:05

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the rusty patched bumblebee* (Bombus affinis), a sweat bee (Agapostemon sericeus), eastern carpenter bee (Xylocopa virginica), the common eastern bumblebee (B. impatiens), a long-horned bee (Melissodes sp.) and centre: eastern snail-shell nesting bee (O. conjuncta). And that we need them and their kin to pollinate our food and the plants in our ecosystem at large. 🧵3/4
*likely no longer found in Canada, but common in my youth
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2025-04-12 13:10:34

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So I decided I could “fix” it by collaging a reprinted text on papers large enough to cover the misprint. The fixed piece won’t make it into my show. But, I have donated it & it will make it into the display case in the pollinator garden later this year.
It just fits, so there’s not much room for explanations like these are all native bees you might see in this garden. Clockwise from top: two leaf cutter bees (Megachile relativa and M. brevis), blue orchard mason bee (Osmia lignaria), 🧵2/n
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2025-04-12 13:05:56

Sometimes things don’t go as planned but, you make a new plan. Working on my (bee propaganda) next print about the future of pollination for Manufactured Ecosystems, I dropped my inked plate with the text and slipped - after completing 9 bees. 😔 I was pretty frustrated, but I started again from scratch.
But I didn’t want the original, with all that work to go to waste. 🧵1/n
#linocut #printmaking #sciart #bees #pollination #nativeBees #bumblebees #insects #mastoart
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2025-04-12 13:05:56

2025-04-08 11:28:29

Happy birthday to Canadian 🇨🇦 geneticist Irene Ayako Uchida (1917-2013)! In my #linocut Uchida is shown surrounded by chromosones, with anomalies (shown with pink arrows) due to radiation exposure, based on one of her research papers. A strand of DNA is hidden in the image (as her watchband).⁠
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Uchida didn’t set out to be a scientist. She was studying English literature at UBC, before she was interned 🧵1/n
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#printmaking #sciart #genetics #cytology #DNA #histstm #WomenInSTEM #chromosomes
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2025-04-05 13:33:14

Working on a new print about the future of pollination featuring wild native bees for Manufactured Ecosystems.
The future of pollination is a huge global concept to tackle artistically. There are issues worldwide, but they’re all local: specific species, stresses on ecosystems & remedies. You can proscribe a general policy like ‘restore habitat’ but you have to be clear that the best plants to help pollinators are those that evolved in a given place. 🧵
#linocut #printmaking #sciart #bees
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2025-04-02 11:24:04

Happy birthday #entomologist & scientific illustrator Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717)! Her stepdad Jacob Marrel & students trained her as an artist. She began painting insects & plants by 13. She wrote, “I spent my time investigating insects. [...] I realized that other caterpillars produced beautiful butterflies or moths, and that silkworms did the same. This led me to collect all the caterpillars I could find in order to see how they changed”.⁠ 🧵
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#printmaking #linocut #sciart #MastoArt
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2025-04-01 11:30:13

Happy birthday to French mathematician, physicist and philosopher Marie-Sophie Germain (1776 – 1831), known as Sophie. She taught herself mathematics using books in her father’s library and by corresponding with leading mathematicians of her day, including Lagrange, Legendre and Gauss, initially using the pseudonym Monsieur LeBlanc. 🧵1/n
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#linocut #printmaking #sciart #mathart #SophieGermain #ChladniFigures #mathematician #Fermat #womenInSTEM #physicist
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2025-03-28 11:33:29

My next Canadian 🇨🇦 province is Manitoba with its provincial animal the bison and flower the crocus (Anemone patens) in this linocut. The block was inked 'à la poupée' (with different colours, pale violet, umber and brown, in different areas) and printed by hand on lovely Japanese kozo (or mulberry) paper.
It's no mystery how the bison could symbolize this prairie province. Manitoba is one of the few places where 🧵1/n
#linocut #printmaking #Manitoba #Canada #mapart #sciart #bison
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2025-03-27 11:20:46

Happy birthday to Wilhem Röntgen (1845-1923), the German physicist who discovered x-rays and earned the Nobel Prize for physics in 1901. I’ve depicted him in this thermochromic portrait at work, studying this mysterious, newly discovered, invisible form of light, based on a photograph of him in his lab, using a Crookes tube to produce x-rays. The form of the print mimics the nature of his discovery -
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#MastoArt #linocut #sciart #Roentgen #physics #histstm #xrays #printmaking
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2025-03-24 12:37:14

Next in my Canadian 🇨🇦 provinces is one my uncle described as “easy to draw, hard to spell.” The symbols of Saskatchewan, its provincial bird, the sharp-tailed grouse and its flower, the Western red lily cover the hand-carved map of Saskatchewan in this #linocut. The block was inked ‘à la poupée’ (with different colours in different areas) and printed by hand on lovely Japanese kozo (or mulberry) paper. 🧵
#printmaking #Saskatchewan #Canada #mapart #sciart #sharpTailedGrouse #WesternRedLily
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2025-03-23 11:36:17

Happy birthday to one of greatest #mathematicians of all time Emmy Noether (1882-1935), here with her eponymous theorem, the backbone of modern physics. Noether’s theorem links any symmetry of a system with a conservation law. In my portrait, I chose to depict a young Emmy in front of a blackboard with a more simple formulation of her theorem and three specific applications of it, shown schematically, 🧵1/
#linocut #printmaking #sciart #physics #histsci #WomenInSTEM #womensHistoryMonth #MastoArt
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2025-03-22 12:30:37

March 22 is #WorldWaterDay and an apt birthday for Japanese #geochemist Katsuko Saruhashi (1920-2007) who created tools that allowed her to make 1st measurements of CO2 in seawater, raised the alarm about nuclear fallout, tracing it in oceans & researched peaceful uses of nuclear power. A supporter of women in science, she established the Society of Japanese Women Scientists & 🧵1/n
#printmaking #sciart #womenInSTEM #climateChange #oceanography #linocut #MastoArt
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2025-03-16 11:57:50

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,🧵
#printmaking #sciart #WomenInSTEM #astronomer #histsci #MastoArt
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2025-03-05 12:27:15

Happy birthday to Gerardus Mercator (1512-1594) renown Flemish cartographer.
What made Mercator a great #cartographer, was in fact his abilities as a #mathematician -and like those of us scientists who feel compelled also to create art he was wasn’t hindered by his immense ability as an engraver. He produced beautiful world maps (a version of which is depicted in this print), globes, 🧵1/n
#geographer #geography #histsci #MastoArt #sciart #linocut #printmaking #mapart #maps #Mercator
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2025-03-04 13:46:20

The last of my older prints which would fit #printerSolstice2425 prompt silicon: four radiolarians of the of the spyroidea family on handmade Japanese paper. Radiolarians (or radiolaria) are a type of tiny creature -amoeboid protozoa - which produce silica mineral skeletons. They occur as zooplankton throughout the oceans and their tiny skeletal remains can be used as diagnostic fossils to date submarine sediments.
#linocut #printmaking #sciart #radiolarian #microbiology #fossils #MastoArt
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2025-02-27 13:47:59

Well I am the first in line to vote at my polling station. They got me a chair.
GET OUT THERE ONTARIO! Don’t let me down.
We do not want 4 more years of Ford because of voter apathy. Don’t let a little snow slow you down.
#Ontario #OntarioElection2025
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2025-02-20 12:27:04

For #BlackHistoryMonth: #mathematician & geodesist Gladys West (née Brown 1930)! Shown with satellite tracks & 3 satellites important to her career: Seasat, GEOS-3 & a GPS satellite. Her work, using math to precisely model the shape of Earth, laid the groundwork for GPS! Born to sharecropper parents in Virginia, she graduated with a Math BSc in ‘52 then MSc at VSU in ‘55. 🧵1/n
#linocut #printmaking #womenInSTEM #BlackInSTEM #histSci #geodesy #EarthScience #Math
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2025-02-17 12:43:46

Happy birthday to Queen Seondeok of Silla (c. 595 ~ 610 - 647), 27th ruler of one of the Three Kingdoms of Korea, from 632-647, who brought about a renaissance in culture and science and built the Cheomseongdae moon and star-gazing observatory.
Known for her intelligence, wisdom & benevolence, stories survive of her curiosity & cleverness even as a child. When her father the King was gifted peony seeds from China 🧵
#linocut #printmaking #sciart #histsci #womenInSTEM #Seondeok #MastoArt
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2025-02-16 15:49:24

Some whale #linocut prints for #WorldWhaleDay! I’ve had the great privilege of seeing humpbacks and orcas (and other species) when working at sea. They seem as curious about us as we are of them.
I would love to see the blue whale and narwhals, in my other prints, too.
I hope we always live in a world where whales can thrive.
#printmaking #whale #humpbackWhale #orca #narwhal #blueWhale #sciart #conservation #MastoArt
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2025-02-16 12:45:10

Happy birthday to Marjorie Rice (née Jeuck, 1923–2017) who discovered 4 new pentagonal tilings of the Euclidian plane!
The San Diego mother of 5 (6th died in infancy) completed half a correspondence art course after high school & had no training as a #mathematician but was always interested in #math & art. She began to follow SciAm writer/amateur mathematician Martin Gardner’s column, rushing to devour the magazine before her 🧵
#womenInSTEM #printmaking #mathematics #linocut #tiling #MastoArt
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2025-02-15 12:54:18

The 3rd Saturday in February is is World Pangolin Day draw attention to the plight of the world’s most trafficked animals, these magnificent scaly mammals. There 8 species of #pangolin in Africa and Asia, all endangered, threatened by poachers for their meat and scales (used in traditional medicines) and by habitat loss and deforestation. 🧵1/2
#groundPangolin #WorldPangolinDay #endangered #conservation #sciart #linocut #printmaking #collage #washi
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2025-02-12 12:32:14

Happy birthday to Charles Darwin (1809-1882)! Today is Darwin Day to celebrate his birthday, science and evolution.
“The inhabitants believe that these animals are absolutely deaf; certainly they do not overhear a person walking closely behind them. I was always amused, when overtaking one of these great monsters as it was quietly pacing along, to see how suddenly, the instant I passed, it …🧵
#CharlesDarwin #DarwinDay #tortoise #linocut #printmaking #sciart #biology #evolution
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2025-02-11 13:49:00

For #printersolstice2425 prompt neon I made a lino block print of four Nixie tubes spelling the word “Neon” on lovely Japanese mulberry paper, 8” x 8”.
Nixie tubes , also known as or cold cathode display, are electronic devices used for displaying letters or numerals or other information using glow discharge. Introduced in 1955, they are prized today for their vintage aesthetics. Inside a glass tube, 🧵1/2
#linocut #printmaking #electronics #NixieTube #neon #sciart #histsci
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2025-02-10 12:16:40

An extraordinary American astronaut and science communicator for #BlackHistoryMonth: Mae Carol Jemison (born October 17, 1956) is a physician who became the first Black woman to travel in space when she went into orbit aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour for NASA, on September 12, 1992. She also has a B.S. in chemical engineering, served in the Peace Corps, is a dancer and choreographer, formed and runs her 🧵
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#linocut #printmaking #sciArt #astronaut #womenInSTEM #BlackInSTEM #histsci #MastoArt
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2025-02-09 12:52:43

I think all the owls in my Parliament of Owls are superb! #superb_owl
I love the whimsical terms of venery for groups of animals and have an ongoing series of #linocut #termsOfVenery prints. For my parliament of owls I made two columns of local owls - you can decide for yourself which are the government and which the loyal opposition in this parliament! Specifically chose some gothic #lettering and Owl with 👁 and 🪶
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#linocut #printmaking #sciart #owls #MastoArt #biodiversity
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2025-01-20 13:33:36

Adélie penguins for #PenguinAwarenessDay ! ⠀
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This handsome couple, two Adélie penguins (Pygoscelis adeliae), common to all the Antarctic coasts, are hand printed in black ink with a hint of orange on white Japanese kozo (or mulberry) paper. Each print is 12.5” by 9.25” (31.8 cm by 23.5cm). Adélie penguins are the most widely spread and southernly penguins (along with the Emperor penguins).⠀
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#linocut #AdéliePenguin #printmaking #Antarctica #MastoArt
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2025-01-18 13:12:50

Thinking about fossil marine invertebrates that Keilan-Jaworowska studied at the beginning of her career, made me think of this pattern made from my linocut animal prints with collaged washi papers from the Cambrian Period (from 538.8 million to 485.4 million years ago). 🧵
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#linocut #printmaking #pattern #surfaceDesign #paleontology #sciArt #Cambrian #BurgessShale #trilobite #wiwaxia #Opabinia #InverteFest #invertebrate #fossils #MastoArt
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2025-01-17 12:53:07

For #printersolstice2425 prompt calcium, my #linocut of Zofia Keilan-Jaworowska (1925-2015) a Polish #paleobiologist, famous for a series of Polish-Mongolian expeditions she lead from 1963-1971 to the Gobi desert, where she discovered dinosaurs including the Deinocheirus, where she & team found the “Fighting Dinosaurs” fossil specimen in 1971 preserving a Protoceratops & Velociraptor trapped in combat about 74 million years ago. Her research covered a wide range 🧵
#womenInSTEM #sciart #histsci
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2025-01-16 12:44:52

The next #printersolstice2425 prompt is Calcium, so I’m thinking bones, fossils and palaeontology. My block in progress.
Any guesses who I am portraying next?
#linocut #printmaking #sciart #histsci #womenInSTEM #paleaontology #paleaontologist #wip #protoceratops #velociraptor #deinocheirus
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2025-01-12 16:49:41

Working on my next #printerSolstice print for the prompt oxygen- another woman who was there and involved in the chemical revolution and development of the idea that burning might be due to an element that got named oxygen rather than a substance possessed by combustible things called phlogiston.
Chemist, mineralogist, meteorologist and scientific translator Claudine Picardet…
#wip #linocut #printmaking #sciart #histsci #womenInSTEM #chemistry #mineralogy
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2025-01-11 14:51:49

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The other climate related natural disaster which saw an artist friend’s whole body of work destroyed was Denise from Asheville Print Studio + Gallery this fall.
The good news is that APS+G has found a new space and are working on rebuilding! I have so much admiration for her perseverance.
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2025-01-11 14:49:36

I really admire the work of printmaker Camilla Taylor, interviewed in this article.
This is the second time in less than a year that I have seen artists I know (at least in the ‘followed on social media for years’ sense) who have lost their life’s work due to climate related disasters.
https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/los-angeles-artists-mourn-as-their-studios-and-artworks-go-up-in-smoke/

2025-01-09 14:02:34

Working on my next linocut for the #printerSolstice prompt carbon! A geochemist for my ongoing series of #womenInSTEM portraits.
Katsuko Saruhashi (1920-2007) made the first measurements of CO2 in seawater.
#linocut #printmaking #wip #ReliefPrint #EarthScience #sciart #MastoArt
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2025-01-05 13:12:42

Happy birthday to #mathematician & #astronomer Nicole-Reine Lepaute (1723-1788)! My #linocut celebrates her calculated path of the solar eclipse of 1764. She also worked with Alexis Clairaut & Jérôme Lalande to precisely calculate the date of return of Halley’s Comet solving the notorious 3-body by hand (including the gravitational pull of Jupiter & Saturn on orbit). They worked in parallel, calculating for 6 months straight barely stopping🧵
#printmaking #womeninSTEM #histsci #sciart #MastoArt
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2025-01-04 13:28:17

Another without a known birthday: my #linocut of ancient Chinese Han Dynasty #polymath & statesman Zhang Heng (78-139) who invented a seismoscope (simplified seismometer which doesn’t make a record of earth motions) to detect distant earthquakes & indicate their direction, 2000 years ago! Here with a reconstruction of his seismoscope, schematic of how it might have worked & horizontal earthquake surface waves (Rayleigh waves🧵
#histsci #printmaking #ZhangHeng #EarthScience #seismology #MastoArt
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2025-01-03 13:48:43

Another unknown birthday: Amongst the earliest recorded woman in #mathematics, Hypatia lived during the 3rd century AD in Alexandria, Egypt, which was part of the Roman Empire. She was born at some time between about 350 and 370 and died in 415 C.E. She taught philosophy, #astronomy and mathematics at a Platonist school. She believed in empiricism and natural law. She was the last librarian of the famed 🧵1/n
#sciart #linocut #printmaking #womeninstem #geometry #histsci #astrolabe #MastoArt
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2025-01-02 12:47:39

I am going to start the year by celebrating those scientists in my print collection whose birthdays aren’t known starting with one of the earliest recorded women in science, Peseshet. She is described in the elaborate Saqqara tomb of her son Akhethotep, royal official & overseer of priests, who lived during the Fifth Dynasty around 2400 BCE. She is described as the “Overseer of the Women Physicians”
#linocut #sciart #printmaking #histsci #histmed #medicine #AncientEgypt #hieroglyphics #MastoArt
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2025-01-01 13:10:44

Happy New Year 2025! I feel some trepidation but hope for a good year.
This linocut shows how I imagine the great white stork of European folklore, who carries babies to new parents.
The ancient stork-the-baby-bringer legend was made popular by Hans Christian Anderson’s story called ‘The Storks’. 🧵1/2
#linocut #printmaking #folklore #stork #newyear #printmaker #mythology #MastoArt
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2024-12-30 12:36:19

For the final #InsertAnInvert2024 prompt “diving” and for #invertefest this is a hand-printed of the Paroster pallescens beetle, surface diving water beetle from Australia. It is printed on 8” x 8” Japanese paper.
Paroster is a genus of beetles in the family Dytiscidae. I really liked the look of this beetle and the amazing diversity of this genus of Australian diving beetles!
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#linocut #printmaking #insect #beetle #entomology #divingBeetle #sciart #MastoArt
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2024-12-28 12:52:52

A 2024 invertebrate print for #invertefest: made for the deepest prompt of #InsertAnInvert2024, hadal - which refers to the deepest ocean trenches 6 km or more, it’s the headless chicken monster!
This is a lino block print of a strange-looking sea cucumber called Enypniastes eximia, the swimming sea cucumber, the pink see-through fantasia or the headless chicken monster!🧵
#linocut #sciart #printmaking #Enypniastes #headlessChickenMonster #seaCucumber #invertebrate #hadal #invertefest2024
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2024-12-27 17:51:01

Another 2024 print for #insertAnInvert: made for the #InsertAnInvert2024 prompt is crawler, about shellfish who can drag themselves over surface like the spectacularly coloured lined chitons (Tonicella lineata), beautiful, tiny marine mollusc of the North Pacific. I don’t usually make reduction prints but I think I might otherwise loose my mind trying to capture the complex patterns.
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#linocut #printmaking #Tonicella #invertebrate #chiton #sciart #wildlifeArt #MastoArt
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2024-12-26 13:55:09

Another invertebrate for #invertefest2024: made for the coastal #InsertAnInvert2024 prompt “sand” - an anemone who can move over sand. This is a wandering sea anemone (Phlyctenactis tuberculosa) or swimming anemone, is a species of venomous sea anemone in the family Actiniidae native to sheltered reefs of shallow seas around Australia and New Zealand/Aotearoa. 🧵1/n
#linocut #printmaking #sciart #anemone #wildlifeArt #oceanLife #invertebrate #InverteFest #MastoArt
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2024-12-26 13:11:53

Happy birthday to #mathematician & #polymath, Mary Fairfax Somerville (1780-1872). As a young widow she made a name for herself when she won a silver medal in 1811 from the Military College at Marlow math journal. Wallace suggested she read Laplace & finding she understood it as well as her tutor her confidence increased, & she expanded her studies to #astronomy, chemistry, #geography, microscopy, electricity & magnetism. 🧵
#printmaking #womeninstemm #linocut #sciart #MastoArt
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2024-12-25 21:43:50

Bonus #ArtAdventCalendar & #invertefest &#crustmas print made for #InsertAnInvert2024 🦀 Time after time shrimp like crustaceans have evolved crablike forms (through a process called carcinization) and do a good job of pretending to be crabs, but this odd looking fellow is the real deal, a true crab. My red frog crab (Ranina ranina), also known as a spanner crab or Huỳnh Đế crab, is … 🧵
#linocut #printmaking #crustacean #crab #frogCrab #spannerCrab #Ranina #wildlifeArt #MastoArt
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2024-12-25 15:19:26

For #invertefest, and some extra #artAdventCalendar posts till the end of December, I will post some of my 2024 #invertebrate art. This was a commissioned of my choice of invertebrates in Indonesia. I chose the Great Mormon Butterfly because I thought its black/white/grey and red colour scheme was so graphic and would make a great print. Interestingly though, they don’t always look like this. 🧵
#linocut #printmaking #butterfly #sciart #GreatMormonButterfly #PapilioMemnon #ixora #MastoArt
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2024-12-24 13:09:27

For the #InsertAnInvert2024 prompt flyer, #artadventCalendar and #invertefest this final week of the year: my kaleidoscope of butterflies. Kaleidoscope is the wonderful name or term of venery for a group of butterflies so I designed this print to match the symmetrical images you can see in a kaleidoscope. There are three each of the orange Isabella’s Longwings (Nymphalidae Eueides isabella), 🧵1/2
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#printmaking #sciart #butterflies #MastoArt #typography #termsofvenery #insect
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2024-12-23 12:29:51

#ArtAdventCalendar day 23: my weeping willow and salicylate cyanotype!
Willow has been used used for medicinal purposes for 1000s of years; cures using willow appear in the writings of various ancient Greek scholars & infusions of willow bark were used traditionally by Cherokee & other Indigenous peoples of NA for fever & other medicinal purposes.
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#sciart #printmaking #chemistry #salix #weepingWillow #willow #histsci #SciArtSeptember2024 #MastoArt
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2024-12-22 13:22:03

For #ArtAdventCalendar day 22: I printed a new version of my Parliament of Owls linocut this year.
I love the whimsical terms of venery for groups of animals and have an ongoing series of #linocut #termsOfVenery prints. For my parliament of owls I made two columns of local owls - you can decide for yourself which are the …🧵
#printmaking #sciart #owls #sawwhet #screechOwl #BarredOwl #LongEaredOwl #BarnOwl #GreatHornedOwl #biodiversity #MastoArt
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2024-12-20 15:36:45

Bonus #ArtAdventCalendar: Here’s the latest in my slightly sinister winter holiday folklore collection: the Italian Christmas witch. La Befana is a witch of Italian folklore who brings sweets & gifts to good children & coal or cinders to bad children on Epiphany Eve. She flies on her broom & comes down the chimney. It’s dangerous to watch her. She’s both grandmotherly and a witch, beloved and ridiculed. 🧵
#linocut #printmaking #Epiphany #Christmas #folklore #Befana #12daysofchristmas #MastoArt
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2024-12-19 12:33:38

Day 19 #ArtAdventCalendar: my #linocut of Hans Christian Andersen’s fairytale Thumbelina (Tommelise) I made for #FolktaleWeek2024.
In my illustration with collaged Japanese papers, Thumbelina rides the swallow, narrator of our tale, at the moment she finally meets someone her size and to her liking, in the tiny flower-fairy prince, surrounded by flowers.
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#printmaking #washi #illustration #childrensLiterature #fairytale #Thumbelina #HansChristianAndersen #collagedPrint #MastoArt
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2024-12-18 13:40:53

Day 18 #ArtAdventCalendar: my #linocut of Slavic #fairytale Vasilisa the Beautiful with the skull lantern. Before her mother’s death, she gave Vasilisa a wooden doll & told her to keep it secret & with her always & whenever she needed help or comfort to offer the doll food & water & seek her help & the doll would provide. The doll helped her with her grief after her mother’s death. 🧵1/n
#folktale #linocut #printmaking #VasilisaTheBeautiful #BabaYaga #illustration #MastoArt
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2024-12-17 12:14:06

Day 17 #ArtAdventCalendar: I recently made this portrait of a wee little tortie cat and was pleased I managed to capture her tortoiseshell pattern and tiny cocked ear.
#linocut #printmaking #cat #tortoiseshellCat #tortie #petPortrait #MastoArt
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2024-12-16 12:29:10

Day 16 #ArtAdventCalendar: my hand-carved lino block reduction print of a clump of poisonous, Eastern jack-o-lantern mushrooms (Omphalotus illudens) on a decaying hardwood tree stump. The gills of these North American mushrooms are bioluminescent and glow green. My print has a layer of glow-in-the-dark ink so it too glows! The glow is believed to attract nocturnal insects which can then spread spores. 🧵
#linocut #printmaking #sciart #fungus #mushroom #foxfire #MastoArt
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2024-12-14 16:21:04

#ArtAdventCalendar day 14: a print I made the 4th #FolktaleWeek2024 prompt trail. I thought of the fairytale Hans My Hedgehog, who knew all the right trails. I love the absurdity of a half-hedgehog man riding a rooster and playing the bagpipes.
His parents desperately wanted a child, and his father foolishly wished for “even a hedgehog”; his wife gives birth to a baby who’s hedgehog from the waist up. 🧵
#linocut #printmaking #fairytale #HansMyHedgehog #illustration #folktaleWeek2024 #MastoArt
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2024-12-13 15:34:01

Bonus #artAdventCalendar: Happy birthday to #mathematician Virginia Ragsdale (1870-1945). The Ragsdale conjecture, made in her 1906 dissertation, is amongst the earliest & most famous on the #topology of real & algebraic curves, which stimulated a lot of 20th century research & was not disproved until ‘79. A correct upper bound has yet to be found. In her dissertation she tackles the 16th of David Hilbert’s famous 23 unsolved problems in mathematics 🧵
#womeninSTEM #printmaking #sciart #mathart
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2024-12-12 12:32:41

Day 12 #ArtAdventCalendar: made for #InsertAnInvert2024 prompt blobchain my linocut of a Portuguese Man o’ War floating at the surface of the sea, printed in blues, turquoise, violet and pink on white 9.25” by 12.5” Japanese kozo (or mulberry) paper.
These are beautiful but deadly creatures, also known as bluebottles, resemble jellyfish but are actually colonial organisms called siphonophores. 🧵1/n
#linocut #printmaking #PortugueseManOWar #invertegrates #siphonophore #MastoArt
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2024-12-11 13:38:23

Day 11 #ArtAdventCalendar: Happy birthday to trailblazing US #astronomer Annie Jump Cannon (1863 – 1941), here with her stellar classification system which sorted stars based on spectral types, revealing their temperature from hot blue to cool red stars: O,B,A, F, G, K & M. Named the Harvard Classification after the university, her tremendous contribution was less visible.
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#printmaking #womenInSTEM #histsci #DisabledInSTEM #linocut #MastoArt
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2024-12-10 12:07:09

Day 10 #ArtAdventCalendar: the famous Arecibo message, an interstellar radio message carrying basic information about humanity and Earth that was sent to the globular cluster Messier 13 in 1974 alongside a view of space with stars & nebulae.
Designed by astronomers who were thinking about the possibility of & communicating with alien life, including Drake, creator of the Drake equation & others, 🧵1/n
#linocut #printmaking #sciart #astronomy #histsci
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2024-12-09 13:41:37

Bonus #artAdventCalendar: Happy birthday to #mathematician & #computerscientist US Navy rear admiral Grace Hopper (1906-1992) who popularized the revolutionary idea of developing machine-independent programming languages based on English.
She began teaching at Vassar in 31 & got PhD (Yale) in 34. She found marriage & teaching less fulfilling & tried to enlist in the Navy, but was rejected then got a special exemption to volunteer for 🧵1/n
#printmaking #womenInSTEM #histsci #MastoArt
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2024-12-07 14:22:50

Bonus #ArtAdventCalendar: Next in my Yuletide folklore cards series is the Yule Goat, Joulupukki of Finland, carrying his parcels, staff with lantern & bedecked with bells & ribbons in this nighttime scene.
Joulupukki is a Finnish Christmas figure whose name translates as Yule or Christmas Goat. Pukki comes from the Teutonic root "bock", which is a cognate of the English "buck" & means "billy-goat". 🧵
#linocut #printmaking #Yule #yuleGoat #joloupukki #Christmas #card #Holidays #legend #winter
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2024-12-07 13:54:09

Happy birthday to self-taught trail-blazing Irish #marineBiologist Maude Delap (1866 – 1953), 1st to successfully breed jellyfish in captivity & document their full lifecycle. She is surrounded by blue #jellyfish (Cyanea lamarckii) life stages based on her diagrams.
Born 7th of 10 kids to Rev Alexander & Anna Jane Delap in County Donegal, her family to Valentia Island when she was 8. 🧵1/n
#womenInSTEM #printmaking #linocut #artAdventCalendar #MastoArt
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2024-12-05 12:36:34

Day 5 #ArtAdventCalendar: What’s inside this cigar box? A black smoker - with giant tube worms (Riftia pachyptila) for #InsertAnInvert2024. I’ve had the idea for this #multimedia in my head for years! Cigar box, collaged papers, gouache, Posca pen, glue, washi tape.
I’ve never had the opportunity to go on a research cruise to a hydrothermal vent, though I have contributed to plans for monitoring 🧵
#sciArt #hydrothermalVent #marineGeophysics #marineBiology #MastoArt
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2024-12-03 13:37:40

Bonus #ArtAdventCalendar: The first in my series of somewhat darker holiday folklore: my linocut Yule Cat, Jólakötturinn of Iceland, a gigantic monster cat looming over a tiny cabin, with a wreath on the door, in a snowy, nighttime woodland scene.
The first written accounts of Jólakötturinn, enforcer of good behaviour leading up to Christmas, date to the 19th century but the stories of the monster cat likely date 🧵
#linocut #printmaking #Yule #YuleCat #Iceland #folklore #legend #cat #MastoArt
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2024-12-01 12:53:43

December 1 already! For the first day of #ArtAdventCalendar, I am sharing the first print I made in 2024. I made this #linocut for the #PrinterSolstice prompt complementary! Orange and blue. An ornamental white and orange carp or koi fish. The edition of prints are made on Japanese kozo (or mulberry) paper, 8” by 10” (20.3 cm by 25.4 cm).
#sciart #koi #carp #fish #SundayFishSketch #MastoArt
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2024-11-28 13:55:00

By popular demand, I printed a new edition of my #linocut Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179), here surrounded by plants & a mineral she touted as medical treatments, her invented alphabet & model of the universe. One of my most popular prints this year!
Her writings preserve not only her own knowledge & theories but the nature of institutional #medicine & folk healing of her day (which she deftly combined). 🧵
#printmaking #womenInSTEM #histSci #histMed #botany
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2024-11-27 14:19:21

Every year I participate in #ArtAdventCalendar. It’s a great way to fill your feeds with art at the end of the year. All are welcome & it’s definitely not just for people who celebrate Christmas. Join in! It can be a bit of an antidote to all the commercialism of the season cause it’s just about sharing art. I tend to focus on recent art. I made so many prints this year, I can share a piece from 2024 🧵
#starfish #seastar #invertebrate #sciart #MastoArt #kelp #oceanLife #ArtAdventCalendar2024
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2024-11-26 12:22:04

An extra jellyfish for #InsertAnInvert2024 Blobmonth!
Maybe I should make this print into fabric? 🤔🪼
You can find some of my other jellies on fabric here:
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#linocut #printmaking #jellyfish #sciart #patternDesign
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2024-11-19 13:56:10

For the 2nd #FolktaleWeek2024 #FolktaleWeekGate I made a #linocut illustrating the Chinese legend of Longmen or The Dragon Gate atop a waterfall on a legendary mountain. According to folklore, many carp swim upstream in the mighty Yellow River, against the strong current, but few are brave or strong enough to make the jump over the waterfall where it cut through a cleft in the Longmen mountains. 🧵1/n
#printmaking #ChineseFolklore #folktale #dragon #carp #DragonGate
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2024-11-09 13:16:09

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Though the US navy did not adopt the method until ‘62 blockade of Cuba & other patents also contributed to modern methods, today we recognize Hedy Lamarr as an important pioneer of wireless tech! Lamarr's & Antheil's frequency-hopping idea serves as a basis for modern spread-spectrum #communications tech like WiFi
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2024-11-09 13:15:35

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She met her neighbour, avant-guard composer Antheil at a party. He had been working on automated control of musical instruments! This was the answer. Together they developed her frequency-hopping idea, encorporating his tech for synching pianolas & on August 11 1942, US Patent Number 2,292,387 for “Secret Communications System" was granted. This early version of frequency hopping used a piano-roll to change among 88 frequencies (like 🎹 ). 🧵4/5

2024-11-09 13:15:13

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in the world. In ‘40, spurred by tragic U-boat sinking of a boatload of refugees, she put her mind to national defense. Torpedoes were guided by single frequency radio signals vulnerable to jamming. She had the idea that if multiple frequencies were employed, like a radio station which varied its channel unpredictably, it would be impossible to find & jam it & the signal could be encoded across a broad spectrum. The difficulty would be in synchronizing transmitter & receiver. 🧵3/

2024-11-09 13:14:27

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to "stand there and look stupid” though a math prodigy, & astute innovator. So while Axis leaders & arms dealers attended their lavish parties, she gained sensitive military intelligence. She decided to leave him & made her escape disguised as her own maid (by drugging her & stealing her clothes), before annexation of Austria. In London Louis B. Mayer, who renamed her 'Hedy Lamarr' & hired her to work for MGM. She went on to make Hollywood films & was known as one of the most beautiful women 🧵2/

2024-11-09 13:13:49

Happy birthday to #inventor Hedy Lamarr (1914 – 2000) & Hollywood star. Born Hedwig Keisler in Vienna, she gained fame after her risqué & notorious starring role in Machatý's ‘33 film Ecstasy. Mandl, 1st of 6 husbands, objected & tried unsuccessfully to buy all copies of film. Hedy objected to him, a munitions manufacturer, dealing with fascists despite both being of Jewish heritage. She learned secret of her beauty was 🧵1/n
#linocut #printmaking #WomenInSTEM #MastoArt
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2024-11-05 13:22:00

For #WorldJellyfishDay & the 1st prompt, dangerous, for Blobfest month of #InsertAnInvert2024 it’s a smack of jellyfish!
The collective noun for a group of jellyfish is a “smack”. This amuses me, because I imagine them smacking their tentacles together in some sort of deepsea high five. To be honest, marine biologists speak of ‘blooms’& we do tend to lump in a bunch of soft-bodies marine creatures into the term jellyfish, 🧵
#linocut #printmaking #jellyfish #typography #termsOfVenery #MastoArt
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2024-11-03 13:02:46

This month is blob month for #InsertAnInvert2024 - you know, the translucent, gelatinous animals like jellyfish and other marine invertebrates like siphonophores and such, so I am going to share extra jellyfish beyond the prompts, like the fabulously named discomedusa here.
#jellyfish #linocut #printmaking #washi #invertebrate #MastoArt
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2024-10-27 12:18:18

Happy birthday to #mathematician & geodesist Gladys West (née Brown in 1930)! Shown with satellite tracks & 3 satellites important to her career: Seasat, GEOS-3 & a GPS satellite. Her work, using math to precisely model the shape of Earth, laid the groundwork for GPS! Born to sharecropper parents in Virginia, she graduated with a Math BSc in ‘52 then MSc at VSU in ‘55. 🧵1/n
#linocut #printmaking #womenInSTEM #BlackInSTEM #histsci #Spacetober #EarthScience #Math
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2024-10-19 12:35:58

Today’s #Spacetober prompt is Earth. My ‘Turtles, all the way down’ I made for a show about cosmology, or the astrophysics of the origins of our Universe. There’s a well-known anecdote, and metaphor for the problem of infinite regress. There are many versions of the anecdote. It appears, famously, in Stephen Hawking’s ‘A Brief History of Time’ amongst other sources. 🧵1/n
#linocut #printmaking #sciArt #cosmology #astrophysics #physics #turtles #Earth #biodiversity #MastoArt
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2024-10-17 11:52:39

Happy birthday to Mae Carol Jemison (born October 17, 1956) a physician who became the first Black woman to travel in space when she went into orbit aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour for NASA, on September 12, 1992! She also has a B.S. in chemical engineering, served in the Peace Corps, is a dancer & choreographer, formed & runs her own company researching the application of technology to daily life, 🧵1/n
#MastoArt
#linocut #printmaking #sciArt #astronaut #womenInSTEM #BlackInSTEM #histsci
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2024-10-15 12:35:19

For the #InternationalMushroomDay, my hand-carved lino block reduction print of a clump of poisonous, Eastern jack-o-lantern mushrooms (Omphalotus illudens) on a decaying hardwood tree stump. The gills of these North American mushrooms are bioluminescent and glow green. My print has a layer of glow-in-the-dark ink so it too glows! 🧵1/2
#linocut #printmaking #sciart #fungus #mushroom #foxfire #JackOLanternMushroom #Omphalotus #MastoArt
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2024-10-11 14:13:51

This was kind of astonishing and rather wonderful: someone working in Asheville to try and help with cleanup post-Helene and salvage any art they find at Riverview Station wrote to me that she found my tiger print and dried it in the sun! It had been at Asheville Print Studio + Gallery which was completely flooded. The damage at this green print studio and gallery and community hub was really devastating and it’s amazing to me that a print on paper could survive.
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#printmaking #Asheville
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2024-09-29 20:35:52

I’m not sure if today’s #SciArtSeptember prompt of “happily ever after” is a thing that happens in the real world but I thought of the great mathematician, writer and polymath, Mary Fairfax Somerville (1780-1872). Arguably the best thing that ever happened to her was when she became a young widowed mother. Her first marriage to Lieutenant Samuel Greig had not been happy; he did not think much of women’s intellectual capacity. 🧵1/n
#womenInSTEM #histsci #astronomy #sciart #printmaking
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2024-09-04 16:50:16

#MinCup24 Round 1 Match 4
2 rare minerals collected for their looks
Durangite is found in veins in ryolite & in pegmatite dikes through granite
Wavellite forms in fractures in aluminous metamorphic rock, in hydrothermal regions & in phosphate rock deposits. It gets the art vote for its use in cabochons & jewelry
#MinCup24
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2024-08-16 11:44:22

There’s a little rabbit who I have spied along the trail outside that reminds me of this ‘Cottontail amongst the Cosmos’ linocut.
#linocut #printmaking #rabbit #cottontail #cosmosFlowers #printmaker #wildlifeArt #MastoArt
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2024-08-12 11:25:15

Have not seen the beavers who live on this lake this visit, but I have heard them and seen that they are maintaining their secret channel through the pickerel weed to their dam.
Here’s my linocut beaver on delicate Japanese paper.
#linocut #printmaking #beaver #washi #printmaker #wildlifeArt #sciart #MastoArt
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2024-08-11 12:23:36

I made this linocut from a different photo of a loon on this lake, taken a few summers ago.
#loon #commonLoon #linocut #printmaking #wildlifeArt #sciart #blackAndWhite #MastoArt
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2024-08-04 12:20:19

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major technical importance to the computer field" in recognition of her work with supercomputers. She was the first woman to win the prestigious award in its 40 year history.
In 2022, the IEEE presented the IEEE Frances E. Allen Medal for the first time for innovative work in computing leading to lasting impact on other fields of engineering, technology, or science.
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2024-08-04 12:19:34

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The diagrams in the portrait are from their crucial 1971 paper, 'A Catalogue of Optimizing Transformations'. Their work introduced the concept of using such graph-theoretical structures to encode a program content in order to efficiently and automatically understand how its parts function together and find ways to optimize code.
In 2006, she won the Associating of Computing Machinery Alan Turing Award, for contributions "of lasting and 🧵4/n

2024-08-04 12:18:48

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She managed the compiler-optimization teams for Harvest and Stretch, IBM's first transitorised supercomputer. In '62 she moved from the IBM facility in Poughkeepsie to Yorkton Heights, where she worked on further supercomputer (ACS-1) and language projects (PL/I). She collaborated with John Cocke on a series of fundamental papers about compiler optimization to improve how higher level languages are translated to machine code. 🧵3/n

2024-08-04 12:18:02

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IBM Research was recruiting teachers to teach FORTRAN (1st high-level programming language) to new employees. Needing to pay off student loans & having taken some basic computing courses, she took the job, teaching FORTRAN while learning it herself. She had intended to return to teaching high school but instead stayed with IBM for 45 years. In 1959 she was assigned to the Harvest project for code breaking for the NSA & worked on the Alpha computer language. 🧵2/n

2024-08-03 12:28:43

Another recent cyanotype made with Virginia creeper, lemon balm and leaves from my garden.
#cyanotype #printmaking #VirginiaCreeper #lemonBalm #botanicalArt #alternativePhotography #cyanotypePrint #MastoArt
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2024-07-21 12:28:49

A cute little rosy maple moth for #NationalMothWeek
The delightfully fluffy and cheerfully coloured Rosy Maple Moth (Dryocampa rubicunda) is printed in lemon yellow and pink, with collaged pink paper, with charcoal eye and orange anteanna on delicate Japanese gampi paper with some bark inclusions.
#linocut #printmaking #sciArt #moth #RosyMapleMoth
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2024-07-11 12:02:19

Time for more dog-day cicada prints! First block printed.
#linocut #printmaking #wip #sciart #cicada #insect #dogdayCicada
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2024-07-09 12:17:04

You can’t tell much from this first layer on my next invertebrate print but I will give you a little hint: this blue square glows in the dark.
#linocut #printmaking #sciart #wip #printmaker #glowInTheDark #bioluminescence
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2024-06-22 12:06:02

Almost complete now with four layers down on my parasitoid wasp print for #InsertAnInvert2024. This long-tailed ichneumoid wasp deposits its eggs into holes in trees so I just need to add the hole 🕳 in this tree.
#sciart #linocut #printmaking #wasp #insect #wip #invertebrate
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2024-05-11 12:34:38

When I get a spare moment I am slowly sewing an alphabet quilt of my Lino block printed animals with a random selection of letterpress letters.
#linocut #printmaking #animals #alphabet #wip #quilt #quilting #blockPrinting #textiles
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2024-04-27 12:48:05

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@npub1j0e…nhrj thanks very much!

2024-03-23 12:08:28

Happy birthday to one of greatest #mathematicians of all time Emmy Noether (1882-1935), here with her eponymous theorem, the backbone of modern physics. Noether's theorem links any symmetry of a system with a conservation law. In my portrait, I chose to depict a young Emmy in front of a blackboard with a more simple formulation of her theorem & 3 specific applications of it, 🧵1/n
#linocut #printmaking #sciart #mathart #physics #mathematics #histsci #WomenInSTEM #MastoArt #womensHistoryMonth
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2023-12-10 13:23:02

For #ArtAdventCalendar Day 10: Happy birthday to Ada Lovelace (1815-1852), who published the first computer program. She worked together with Charles Babbage, the inventor of the Difference Engine and the Analytical Engine (the first - analogue! - #computers), correcting his notes on how to calculate Bernoulli Numbers with the Analytical Engine. 🧵1/n
#sciart #linocut #printmaking #mathematics #mathart #compsci #programming #histstm #WomenInSTEM #technology #MastoArt
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