Plankton Universe, State 1

©2021

 

Mixed Media digital and analogue. Sources include Leningrad Codex, produced in Cairo, 1008 C.E.; Ciliate and other plankton  microcaptures by the Menden-Deuer lab, University of Rhode Island.

 

Variable dimensions

 

Produced in collaboration with the Menden-Deuer lab, School of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island.

 

Plankton Universe, State 2

©2021

 

Mixed Media digital and analogue. Sources include Leningrad Codex, produced in Cairo, 1008 C.E.; Ciliate and other plankton  microcaptures by the Menden-Deuer lab, University of Rhode Island.

 

Variable dimensions

 

Produced in collaboration with the Menden-Deuer lab, School of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island.


Exhibited:

Ocean View, University of Rhode Island Gallery
Providence, RI April 2021

 

Ciliates in the Circular Void

©2020

 

Mixed Media digital and analogue. Sources include Leningrad Codex, produced in Cairo, 1008 C.E.; Ciliate and other plankton  microcaptures by the Menden-Deuer lab, University of Rhode Island.

 

Variable dimensions

 

Produced in collaboration with the Menden-Deuer lab, School of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island.

 

Exhibited:

Roundness Project, curated by Susan Turner
2020

City Wide Open Studios 2020

 

Published online:

Roundness

 

 

 

Ciliates in the Deep Sea, State 2
©2020

 

Mixed Media digital and analogue. Sources include Leningrad Codex, produced in Cairo, 1008 C.E.; Ciliate and other plankton  microcaptures by the Menden-Deuer lab, University of Rhode Island.

 

Variable dimensions

 

Produced in collaboration with the Menden-Deuer lab, School of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island.

 

Exhibited:

City Wide Open Studios 2020

The Song of Diatoms in Old Cairo

©2020

 

The first in a series of images produced during the Pandemic Lockdown in April, 2020.

Mixed Media digital and analogue.Sources include Leningrad Codex, produced in Cairo, 1008 C.E.; Ciliate and other plankton  microcaptures by the Menden-Deuer lab, University of Rhode Island.

 

Variable dimensions.

 

Exhibited:

City Wide Open Studios 2020

 

Published online:

Catherine Mason, Art in Lockdown

Studio International, May 5, 2020

 

 

Ciliates in Yemen, State 1,

©2020

 

Mixed Media digital and analogue. Sources include  Pentateuch with Masorah and Masoretic and Grammatical Introduction by the scribe Benayah ben Sa'adyah. produced in Yemen in  1470. Ciliate and other plankton  microcaptures by the Menden-Deuer lab, university of Rhode Island and the artist.

 

Variable dimensions

 

Produced in collaboration with the Menden-Deuer lab, School of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island.

 

Exhibited:

City Wide Open Studios 2020

Diatom Chains and the Dead Sea Scroll Fragments in Pink
©2017

 

This image is part of a series of mixed-media digital prints bringing together two previously unseen and unknown elements in our world: one, the microscopic life in our waters that form the basis of all life, and the other, hidden texts that may have given rise to some of the important philosophical and spiritual thought of our contemporary culture. The imagery mixes photographic and hand-drawn images of plankton with Dead Sea Scrolls. Augmented Reality is a part of the work, revealing source materials and context. Produced with input from the Menden-Deuer lab of Oceanography at the University of Rhode Island.

 

Exhibited:

Natural Instincts - curated by Jewish Art Salon

Charter Oak Cultural Center
Hartford, CT

Diatoms and the Dead Sea Scroll in Blue
©2017

 

This image is part of a series of mixed-media digital prints bringing together two previously unseen and unknown elements in our world: one, the microscopic life in our waters that form the basis of all life, and the other, hidden texts that may have given rise to some of the important philosophical and spiritual thought of our contemporary culture. The imagery mixes photographic and hand-drawn images of plankton with Dead Sea Scrolls. Augmented Reality is a part of the work, revealing source materials and context. Produced with input from the Menden-Deuer lab of Oceanography at the University of Rhode Island.

 

Source

 

Plankton and the Ancient Egyptian Hebrew Text State I

 

Part of the ongoing series melding plankton and ancient Hebrew manuscripts.  With this image I explore fragments of ancient texts, as interesting visual forms, as well as holders of words and spiritual longings.  Microscopic Plankton were only discovered in the last 100 years, and yet their forms seem to be reflected in the Hebrew Egyptian texts from the 10th or 11th centuries.


Exhibited:

2016 Meditations on Place The Koslowe Gallery, Westchester Jewish Center, Mamaroneck, NY, June

2016 Augmented Reality and Jewish Art
Art Kibbutz, Governors Island New York NY September

 

 

Source

Plankton and the War Dead Sea Scroll - Fowler Collection

 

Plankton and the War Dead Sea Scrolls is a series of digital imagery that brings together two previously unseen and unknown elements in our world: one, the microscopic life in our waters that form the basis of all life, and the other, hidden texts that may have given rise to some of the important philosophical and spiritual thought of our contemporary culture.

 

Source

Medievel Plankton and the Four Humors

 

Thanks to the Oxford Gallery of Rochester NY for inspiring this image.  Each year the gallery director, James Hall, comes up with a challenge for the gallery artists.  This year he challenged us to work with the theme of the Four Humors.

 

Because the idea of the Four Humors stems from early medicine, I turned to a Medieval Hebrew Manuscript as a source of inspiration, mixing the motifs of the era with my own captures of plankton. Of particular interest was the way in the plankton became to take on the character of the medieval decorative faces - the same lifelike haunting spirituality of the Middle Ages.

 

Exhibited:

2014 E3 curated by Linda Griggs,
Fountain Art Fair, New York, NY

 

2013 Four Humors: Gallery Artists,
Oxford Gallery Rochester NY

Collection:
Private Collection, Miami Florida

 

Source