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7.50" x 10.00"
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9.50" x 12.00"
Blue Cocoon Art Print
by Shoshanah Dubiner
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Blue Cocoon art print by Shoshanah Dubiner. Our art prints are produced on acid-free papers using archival inks to guarantee that they last a lifetime without fading or loss of color. All art prints include a 1" white border around the image to allow for future framing and matting, if desired.
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�Blue Cocoon� was inspired by two photographs taken at UC San Francisco�s Jan Lab. One showed undifferentiated cells in a fruit... more
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Artist's Description
�Blue Cocoon� was inspired by two photographs taken at UC San Francisco�s Jan Lab. One showed undifferentiated cells in a fruit fly embryo; the other, taken 10 hours later, showed a fully formed fruit fly nervous system.
Neurobiologists Yuh-Nung Jan and Lily Jan wrote: �The birth of the nervous system remains one of the fundamental mysteries of biology.� How do neurons arise from undifferentiated cells? How do they differentiate into individual shapes and identities? And how do they organize themselves into nervous system pathways that spread throughout an organism? My painting is not a scientific answer to those questions, but rather a contemplation of the awesome and complex process by which forms arise in living organisms.
The painting began with the small cocoon or womb that contains the undifferentiated cells; a system of interconnected cocoons followed, showing not only the nervous system of the fruit fly, but also the nervous syste...
About Shoshanah Dubiner
"My painting takes off from nature inspired by science, especially from cell biology and botany. While much art depicts the world at the human scale (landscapes, portraits, apples in a bowl) I often start with cell membranes, the inside of cells, the silk spigots of spiders, lichens — the world of the tiny. By depicting natural forms in an imagined, mythical world, my paintings reveal the human psyche and its capacity to go beneath the surface of things; to experience beauty and awe and even fear; to understand that we humans are connected to all the other creatures on earth and even to the cosmos. I enjoy observing and reading about nature, but I am not a scientific illustrator in the conventional sense. I do study my subject matter...
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Gary F Richards
Congratulations on your sale of this wonderful artwork! F/L
Gull G
Art is unquestionably one of the purest and highest elements in human happiness. It trains the mind through the eye, and the eye through the mind. As the sun colours flowers, so does art colour life. ― John Lubbock CONGRATULATIONS ON SALE!
Chrisann Ellis
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David Stasiak
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