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Art
fished out of the recycling
Recyclers made of recycling: lockdown experiments, 2020-21. The anemone is an original design; the isopod/pillbug/wood louse/chuggy pig is based on a design by Do Anh Tu.
Salar (2021)
I designed a salmon head in origami for Salar, an environmental theatre piece by The Hatch ensemble in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
I’m trying to write a book about plankton and fish
My first science zine. Covid-19 lockdown project, month 3. In retrospect I think it’s let down by the lettering, especially because I missed the opportunity to distinguish the two voices in it (it’s a collab with a then-4-year-old). But in true Prof. Dr. Style I’m leaving it on my website anyway. It’s folded from one … Read more
A rabbit-based colour scheme
A while back I made a colour scheme for scientific figures out of the opening frames of Rabbit of Seville. Here is the matlab code, and here it is in the wild, in Banas et al. (2009), “The Columbia River plume as cross-shelf exporter and along-coast barrier” (probably the most complex figure I’ve ever done) … Read more
Droplet: self-generation
I made this video for a town hall event called “From the tide pool to the stars” at the 2018 Ocean Sciences Meeting. It documents the generation of Droplet (2012) from an initial field of seeds. My hope is that it would make one think of things that are very large and things that are … Read more
Rain and Flow (Blindfold Gallery, 2012)
The Blindfold Gallery (Seattle) showed a selection of work from the Pond and Rain series in spring 2012. Most pieces from the show are in this flickr gallery. My artist statement is below, and I expanded on some of it in this interview with SeattleArtBloc. Artist Statement I’m an oceanographer. I work with computer models … Read more
“Some warm little pond”
Gallery on flickr. This series consists of sketches in a couple of different families leading up to Droplet (2012). Many of these works were originally shown at the Blindfold Gallery in Seattle in 2012. I wrote a bit about them at the time, and explained a bit more in an interview with SeattleArtBloc. More recently, … Read more
Springypoly (2006-10)
Gallery on flickr. This project started with some nuptial software I wrote for Alicia Mariscal and Kevin Ramsey (that’s a link to the interactive version)… …and then it went on from there.
