Via iO9, a gallery of stunning glass viruses by sculptor Luke Jerram, originally from the Guardian. (The one above is swine flu.)
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Dear Luke,
I just saw a photo of your glass sculpture of HIV.
I can't stop looking at it. Knowing that millions of those guys are in me, and will be a part of me for the rest of my life. Your sculpture, even as a photo, has made HIV much more real for me than any photo or illustration I've ever…
And now for a completely different type of glass art: this time from sculptor Luke Jerram. His deceptively beautiful glass malaria parasite (see video below) will be auctioned off to benefit Malaria No More.
Via Medical Museion. The "malaria parasite" is also known as Plasmodium falciparum. Read…
This weekend I visited the Trauma exhibition at London's GV Art gallery. The pieces all relate in some way to physical and psychological trauma inflicted on the body, by a range of artists working alone and in collaboration with medics.
Some of the items are underwhelming verging on irritating…
OMG! This Chris Beckett story is totally about me!
You can read the title story of The Turing Test online, and it's well worth checking out. In a dystopian future, Jessica runs a gallery where art increasingly involves human body parts and is designed to shock and appall bystanders.
Now I have to…
Wow...those were truly beautiful. They look so sort of brittle and breakable like that, as well as ultimately very cold and deadly.
I always thought it would be fun to make virus versions of those crystal-animals you find in airport shops. Expecially phages, which seem almost designed for it :)
Marvelous. As someone with some minor proficiency in technical glass-blowing all I can say is "wow". They bring to mind the glass models in the Peabody collection.
Three points
Point 1: I particularly like the E. coli sculpture
Point 2: The detail is just incredible on these
Point 3: How have I avoided finding this blog for so long?