Research for a work-in-progress…

The bottom row is a stereoscopic anaglyph (arguably a redundancy), just in case you have any red/blue glasses about your person.

“As buds give rise by growth to fresh buds, and these if vigorous, branch out and overtop on all sides many a feebler branch, so by generation, I believe it has been with the great Tree of Life, which fills with its dead and broken branches the crust of the earth, and covers the surface with its ever branching and beautiful ramifications”
— Charles Darwin
The Origin of Species
1859
 
(Happy belated birthday, Mr. Darwin.)

Somekindeous vineyflowerous, growing outside our front door. Over the past month or so, this vine has produced over one hundred blooms.

Here is a photograph of one of my print works, 2000.16b, showing in the Ars Electronica Center’s Deep Space gallery. There are people standing on my artwork and I do not mind in the least.

deep space II (aec). Originally uploaded to flickr by magrolino.

There is another photo here of 2005.1.

…90% bacteria. I love this stuff. We truly are the sum of our (1,000,000,000,000 + 10,000,000,000,000) parts.

“[They] were incredibly small, nay so small, in my sight, that I judged that even if 100 of these very wee animals lay stretched out one against another, they could not reach to the length of a grain of coarse Sand.”

— Antonie van Leeuwenhoek describing his discovery of bacteria

See illustrations and reproductions of van Leeuwenhoek’s microscope here.

They said they'd come back for me if I said anything more.

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