NOTES FROM THE STUDIO LAB -PHOTOGRAPHY OF CRYSTALS: ENCOUNTERS WITH ART AND SCIENCE -OCTOBER 2024

NOTES FROM THE STUDIO LAB -PHOTOGRAPHY OF CRYSTALS: ENCOUNTERS WITH ART AND SCIENCE -OCTOBER 2024

NOTES FROM THE STUDIO/LAB _PHOTOGRAPHY OF CRYSTALS BY LEE HENDRICKSON -ENCOUNTERS WITH ART AND SCIENCE- OCTOBER 2

  

BEJEWELED -Photomicrograph of crystalline acetaminophen

 

NEWS FROM THE VASHON STUDIO/LAB:

The salmon are heading upstream, the leaves are falling fast, and the days are getting shorter and considerably cooler, but the art scene here on the island is heating up!

I have recently joined the Swiftwater Gallery, an artist's cooperative gallery featuring Vashon artists. It's located in a beautiful space in the heart of downtown Vashon and features an outstanding selection of artwork from a very talented group. We're open Wednesday-Sunday, 10-5 pm.

I have also been selected to participate in the VIVA (Vashon Island Visual Artists) Holiday Studio Tour December 7-8 and 14-15. There will be 44 studios and galleries represented this year and I will be hosting a solo exhibition of my work at a newly opened exhibition space in downtown Vashon.

Of course, my "to-do" list includes preparations for the upcoming Arizona Fine Art Expo, opening this year on January 10. It will be my 10th year participating at the EXPO, and I am looking forward to reconnecting with so many friends and colleagues soon.

A busy artist is a happy artist!

Cheers!

Lee

Vashon Island -October 2024

 

LEE'S UPCOMING EVENTS:

December 7-8 & 14-15, 2024 VIVA Holiday Studio Tour, 10-4pm, Studio 31 located at 17861 Vashon Hwy SW, Vashon. WA

January 10- March 23, 2025 Arizona Fine Art Expo, 10-6pm daily, located at 26540 N Scottsdale Rd, Scottsdale, AZ.

 

The Holiday Season is upon us!

Do you have a chocolate lover, a caffeine aficionado, or perhaps a wine connoisseur on your holiday gift list? Look no further than the Photography of Crystals Store. Now is a terrific time to start your shopping, whether to spruce up your own nest or as a uniquely beautiful gift for family or friends. The Photography of Crystals Store, there is no other place like it on earth!

ODE TO JOY -Photomicrograph of crystalline acetaminophen found in Tylenol®. -NEW!

 

ART AND SCIENCE: PLAYFUL MUSINGS

Those who knew the Scottish physician and microbiologist
Alexander Fleming were familiar with his love of games -word games, boardgames, golf, billiards. This love of play extended into his work. The immunologist, Almorth Wright told him, "You treat research like a game.You find it all great fun." Fleming agreed. "I play with microbes" he said, allowing that it was "very pleasant to break the rules and be able to find something nobody had thought of."

Fleming was also interested in art. As a member of the Chelsea Arts Club, his go-to medium was watercolor -but he also painted with bacteria. Many bacteria are chromogenic, meaning they can produce beautiful colors. Fleming took advantage of his study subjects' flair for color, creating his palette by isolating microbes with appropriate pigments, then painting the different bacterial species onto an agar-filled petri dish. After allowing the colonies to incubate and fill in his artwork, a paper disc was placed on top,
transferring the colors to a permanent surface. After removing and treating the disc with formalin to stop the growth, he gifted his microbial masterworks to friends and colleagues.

Alexander Fleming certainly did not fit the stereotypical profile of the serious scientist. Notorious for keeping a messy lab and leaving petri dishes, microbes and lab equipment scattered about, he returned from a holiday trip and found that a fungus had invaded a stack of abandoned bacterial culture plates. The bacterial growth surrounding the fungus had died. In that chance moment, Fleming discovered the antibiotic properties of penicillin, properties that would change the world. It's been estimated his discovery has saved over 200 million lives. On reflection he said, "When I woke up just after dawn on September 28, 1928, I certainly didn’t plan to revolutionize all medicine by discovering the world’s first antibiotic, But I suppose that was exactly what I did."

Alexander Fleming was a brilliant researcher, a scientist who noticed the previously unnoticed and found as much joy in the journey as the destination.

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