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Microscopy · Living Motion · Hidden Ecologies

Selected Works
Plankton Painting
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Plankton Painting

Living pigment from aquatic microworlds

Umbra
002

Umbra

Shadow ecologies and invisible boundaries

Borderlands
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Borderlands

Liminal zones between water, air, and organism

Plankton Performance
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Plankton Performance

Live microscopy as performance art

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Research
Laboratory

Process, experiments, and unfinished investigations. A look behind the lens.

Fluorescence Microscopy
Fluorescence→
High-Speed Video
High-Speed Imaging→
Schlieren Optics
Schlieren / Currents→
SEM
Scanning Electron Microscopy→
Microscopic violence / decomposition
Death / Decay→
Entwined bodily ecologies
Blood & River Water→
Archive

Living Archive

A growing collection of observations from the microscopic world. Organisms, behaviors, environments — drifting through water and time.

Copepods
Stentor
Diatoms
Tardigrades
Ciliates
Polychaete
Amoebae
Water Fleas
Bacteria
Worms
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