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What is the future of natural dyes? Can our clothes be dyed with bacteria? For the bacterial drawings project, I was interested in testing the potential of bacteria as a “natural” dye to see if it would dye natural fibers. Building connections with all natural beings, bacteria included, is a collaboration that I am passionate about for my material research in my practice.
“god’s eye / god in a seed” explores the intersections of microbial life, AI technology, the human hand, and theology. How do we interact with that we do not know? How do we interact with that which seems to know us too well?
Try to use the layering method to apply a second layer of color with a new kapton after the first layer of E.coli has already showed up the color.
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Knowing that E.coli will gradually “disappear” after a while of growth (it is actually that the bacteria spread out on plate so the color fades out), I want to grasp and make art out of this characteristic. The 语气词, similar to interjections in English (I’m still trying to find the best translation), in Chinese language are always at the end of a sentence and all of them don’t have a tone, which is rare in Chinese because generally speaking every word has a tone. That makes 语气词 unremarkable and is easy to be ignored. So I want these words to be displayed in an already faded state.
Mimicking cave paintings with CRISPR and fluorescent red Ecoli.
A series of bacterial drawings reflecting on cleanliness and fear of contamination.
Knit a Sweater, ecoli drawing
Bacterial drawings of E.coli were used to create short animations tracking the growth of cells and allowing the texture of the cell cultures to take the form of motions of rain and notions of my homeland.
Using wood branches as the base to display the leaves as a stamp.
The goal of this project was to recreate the appearance of a traditional “gummy worm” using lab materials. The material used here were agar agar, xanthan gum, and E. Coli that has been modified to produce a variety of fluorescent proteins.
My projects are an exploration of the structures of lace and the meaning of place and stability making use of the unique properties of bacteria.
Can bacteria, or other organisms, ‘flag’ consent? The human ability to give and receive consent comes with environmental, sociological, and political responsibility, accountability, and obligation.
Riley Cox, Fibers, 2023 Project Overview This work used E-coli bacteria edited with CRISPR to appear white. In this process…
I wanted to represent intimacy through the language of bacteria and the germ microbiome. Intimacy operates through many layers of consent, and in some ways, this involves consent between the germs of all parties involved. Bacteria are living organisms that become involved in all intimate actions in invisible ways, but these drawings make them visible through culturing.
The literal microscopic imagery of mitosis, in particular the stage of anaphase, reminded me of the exponential, organic, repeat patterning of overshot weaving. In the process of drafting, these designs become exponentially grown as a repeat, not unlike the multiplicity of cell division. By physically layering two varying visual representations of cell division, this piece draws connection between the microscopic and macroscopic acts of exponential growth that are happening all around us.
Karina Ye, Illustration, 2023 This work illustrates the fantasy and mysterious sences at night that happened in a sureal world.…
Grown Up examines what it means to become an adult without forgetting the magic of childhood.
Anna Fern Ervin 2022 Interconnection is a piece exploring the interconnectedness of species, specifically the systems formed between plant roots,…
For this work, I started with images which I edited to remove information. My idea was to culture the bacteria…