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Here the cell is envisioned as an imaginary hanging garden filled with containers. Membranes fold and curve to form walls and round spheres and flattened spheres. They can be containers for hanging plants and flowers as well as for transporting chemicals into, around, and out of the cell. Aren't the gourds containers for their seeds. It's an exuberant dance that's going on in the cells of living organisms!
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"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...