For #BrainAwarenessWeek I’m sharing my brainiest #SciArt #embroidery pieces. Here’s woman in skull (2016), not a brain per se, but the part of the skull where the brain sits, imagined as an architectural space.

Happy birthday to botanist & photography trailblazer Anna Atkins (1799-1871), née Children!

Atkins’ mother died when she was still an infant, but she was close with her naturalist father & received a much more scientific education than was common for women in her time. Her 250 detailed engravings of shells were used to illustrate her father’s translation of Lamarck’s ‘Genera of Shells’; 1/n

Happy birthday to Caroline Herschel (1750 – 1848) a trail blazing woman in #astronomy. Hers was a real life Cinderella story, where rather than marrying a prince, she made a life and career for herself. Marriage her expected role but she was deemed unmarriageable, since a childhood bout of typhus stunted her growth. Her mother thought she should train to be a servant, & purposely stood in the way of her learning French, or music,

From our recent raku firing, The Cosmic Forge Born of fire, veiled in night, Holding echoes, stars ignite. Embers dance in spectral hues, A vessel where the cosmos brews. #sciart #space #magic

For #BrainAwarenessWeek I’m sharing my brainiest #SciArt #embroidery pieces. Here’s neuraesthenia (2017), a piece depicting the heaviness I feel during post-exertional malaise (PEM). PEM often starts in my cognition then spreads out through my body.

A kaleidoscope of butterflies for #WorldButterflyDay. It’s also #PiDay so I feel this the symmetries of this print which I laid out with a compass and some geometric tricks, seems apt.
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There are three each of the orange Isabella’s Longwings (Nymphalidae Eueides isabella), three yellow Eastern tiger swallowtails (Papilio glaucus), and three blue Red-Spotted Purples (Limenitis arthemis astyanax) in this #linocut kaleidoscope.⠀
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#printmaking #sciart #butterflies #typography #mastoart #insect

I think all the organs and such in the cephalothorax are done. Still working on the abdomen. (Spider internal organs 3d model. Hopefully will eventually be 3d printed.)

Spider people, how's it looking?

Une nouvelle gravure avec la progression du travail !
1- Le brouillon
2- Le crayonné sur la plaque
3- la plaque gravée
4- le tirage (presque) final

Le biotope dépeint est celui de l'île de Hațeg, au crétacé supérieur. C'est aussi une référence au documentaire #PrehistoricPlanet

Mercury, final prompt for #printerSolstice2425, made me think of #alchemy. It is an element the alchemists favoured & felt was fundamental in their efforts to transmute base into precious metals, both in western & Chinese alchemy (from whence western alchemy emerged).

This is my #linocut portrait of an #alchemist known as Master Geng (before ~975, 耿先生; Gěng Xiānshēng, sometimes Kêng Hsien-shêng). 1/n

For #BrainAwarenessWeek I’m sharing my brainiest #SciArt #embroidery pieces. Here’s a detail from the wandering ghost (2024), my piece about the vagus nerve and my experiences with polyvagal theory.

You can read more about this piece here: https://liapas.com/2024/10/15/the-wandering-ghost/

Happy birthday to chemist William Henry Perkin (1838-1907)! This #lino block print ‘William Henry Perkin Discovers Mauve’ is about how the British chemist & entrepreneur made the serendipitous discovery of the 1st synthetic organic dye: mauveine. ⁠
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Perkins entered the Royal College of Chemistry in London in 1853 when he was only 15, studying with August Wilhelm von Hofmann. 1/n
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#linocut #printmaking #sciart #chemistry #MastoArt #dye #histsci #chemist #FashionHistory #purple #mauve #colour

Treatment: The ER’s Embrace

https://www.illmarks.com/treatment-the-ers-embrace/

'Phoenix Rising' is a raku vase for these times. A little crack, but not broken through, Still standing strong, still burning true. The world may shake, the sky may fall, The Phoenix Rises—through it all. #sciart #resist Take good care of yourself during these troubled times.

For #BrainAwarenessWeek I’m sharing my brainiest #SciArt #embroidery pieces. Here’s she was tributaries (2016), a depiction of the electrical storm I feel in my brain when I have cognitive fatigue from #MECFS.

Today for #MarshMadness I painted a large marsh grasshopper (Stethophyma grossum). Although populations nearly disappeared, these guys are once again increasingly common in the UK thanks to rewilding and breeding efforts.

https://www.citizenzoo.org/our-work/hop-of-hope/

For #InternationalWomensDay a short thread of my ongoing series of portraits of women in science through history. If you look for them, they’re there. I’m up to 67 now! Here’s to the day when a scientist’s sex is no longer remarkable in any field!

#IWD #IWD2025 #womenInSTEM #histsci #linocut #printmaking

This leggy dude is a marsh crane fly (Tipula oleracea). Crane flies have two generations per year. The first generation emerges as flying adults in the spring. Their larvae develop quickly over the summer and fly during the late summer through fall. Their larvae overwinter beneath the soil.