Do you remember carving little love hearts into a tree? This is like that, except for it’s carved out of inanimate material and then life is added into the wound. In this case the flesh like quality of the agar and red pigment of the Ecoli give it the feeling of a bloody wound.
For this project, I was thinking of the microcosmic vs. microcosmic. There is an uncountable amount of cells in a given spot of Ecoli on a Petri dish, similar to the amount of stars in the sky. I think of bacterial colonies as a little family and began thinking of the familial relationships inherent in horoscopes. My mother gave me my star sign: five little stars in a vast universe.
A speculative collaboration with bacteria to design a nightstand.
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Mimicking cave paintings with CRISPR and fluorescent red Ecoli.
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…
Karina Ye, Illustration, 2023 This work illustrates the fantasy and mysterious sences at night that happened in a sureal world.…