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October 12, 2011 Shoshanah Dubiner
Water Animal Mandala

Water Animal Mandala

At first glance, this painting is a mandala structured around two people inside a center circle that radiates the 8 arms of an octopus. The mandala is framed by a ring of blue anemones and other marine invertebrates. It's what you'd see if you were underwater in a pond rimmed by rocks and the small invertebrates that grow on them; you are looking up at the golden yellow sky watching a floating wreath of living creatures. Look closely at the areas to the right and left of the wreath, filled with intertwining pale green and turquoise tubing. 

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Look even more carefully at the pink dots at the end of each tube and you will see that they form a roughly hexagonal grid.  detail of Water Animal Mandala

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Different interpretations of membrane structure

This network of tubules is just one interpretation of what an hexagonal array of circles could represent to someone studying thin sections of a cell, as you can see in the black and white drawing (Fig. 8.1 from The Molecular Biology of Plants, from the University of California Press E-books collection).

How do scientists know which interpretation is valid? By looking at membrane structures from many different angles, with many different tools. Do we know that our experiences of life are only the tips of many icebergs? To know what the vast universe is REALLY like we must go beyond our own personally and culturally biased ways of interpreting what we see. We must keep expanding our sources of information and build the picture in our mind that we cannot necessarily see with only our own eyes.

← mother of moleculessilk neural network →
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Am pleased to announce that two of my pollinator paintings were selected for ASCI's 18th annual major juried exhibition with the theme "FOOD".  ASCI (Art & Science Collaborations, Inc.) was founded in 1988 by artist Sylvia Pannucci to promote artists who were producing "kinetic, light, and other hybrid works which, at that time, had difficulty being shown in the New York commercial gallery world."  Art exhibitions, panel discussions, speakers' series, members' newsletters, and other events followed.  At the ArtSci'98 International Symposium Nurturing Collaboration, research scientists, artists, educators, writers and representatives from science and technology industries discussed some of the following questions:  "As creativity is a shared aspect of art and science, what new cultural expressions, new ways of seeing, and new insights are being developed by today's artists and scientists? What are the ways that art and science have altered and continue to move each other? The discoveries and tools of science have had a major impact on art. How has art impacted science?"

Those questions are as relevant today as in 1998. If they interest you (as they do me), check out ASCi's Facebook page.

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