I'm at the CSTC breakfast kindly put together by Ralph Kerle and AMP's Catalyst for Magic (who does not blog but should). The posed and lovely Linda Naiman is in town. About half-way in, there's a lot of talking go on and my minute attention span is attenuating so I ask her to draw what she does. She bats it back to me and gets two us to do a drawing conversation exercise with her guiding us. I am a terrible drawer but I really enjoyed it. Especially the comet.
Check out Linda's site, there's heaps of good stuff there.
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Tuesday, March 04, 2008
Saturday, March 01, 2008
edge of life
Cairo Walker hits us with another painting.
Like CW, I have a fascination with viruses* and pathogens in general. I studied a bit of pathology at Uni. When I lived in Calcutta, I became painfully aware that we not only live in ecologies but that our bodies themselves are ecologies (bacterial dysentery will do that to you). The human body contains 10 times as many bacterial prokaryotic cells as human eukaryotic cells.
Viruses are reproductive machines that don't have the full equipment to reproduce without hijacking other organisms. They swarm through the environment. They mutate, recreate themselves in a constant state of becoming. The AIDS virus has killed (and changed the lives of) people close to me. But on one level it is beautiful. Don't you think? A little strand of nucleic acid surrounded by proteins. Not that dissimilar to us.
*I think the term "viral" is hideously misused but that's a rant for another time.
Like CW, I have a fascination with viruses* and pathogens in general. I studied a bit of pathology at Uni. When I lived in Calcutta, I became painfully aware that we not only live in ecologies but that our bodies themselves are ecologies (bacterial dysentery will do that to you). The human body contains 10 times as many bacterial prokaryotic cells as human eukaryotic cells.
Viruses are reproductive machines that don't have the full equipment to reproduce without hijacking other organisms. They swarm through the environment. They mutate, recreate themselves in a constant state of becoming. The AIDS virus has killed (and changed the lives of) people close to me. But on one level it is beautiful. Don't you think? A little strand of nucleic acid surrounded by proteins. Not that dissimilar to us.
*I think the term "viral" is hideously misused but that's a rant for another time.
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