Lucy Jane MacAllister Dukes
Art & Science Research Journal: Exploring connections between humans and more-than-humans in the anthropocene
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Grow Lab: SCOBY Paintings & Bacteria Drawings
I began this project looking at bacterial grown inks to create fully biodegradable paintings with SCOBY. However, I never finished this, this is one of the projects I chose to stop. I might come back to it but I realised I was more exploring, experimenting and learning but it wasn’t leading to something directly like…
K. Animale Research
K. Animale a.k.a. oscillatoria bacteria a.k.a the coolest squiggly swirly algae you’ve ever seen! Long, filamentous unbraching – having my own microscope at home really helped me see the different scales of drawing. https://microbewiki.kenyon.edu/index.php/Oscillatoria Reproduces by FRAGMENTATION (breaking = making) Working with K-animale to create living, photosynthesising drawings on BG 11 Media. I want to…
Ongoing: SCOBY Lights
Ongoing collaboration with Peter Nasielski, who I met as part of the Making Waves residency and Zak Tozer, local kombucha brewer. As a furniture designer, an artist/scientist/philosopher and a brewer, we have different persepctives but also similar values about re-using waste products and creating connections between humans and other-than-humans. First experiment @ Zak’s Brewery Zak’s…
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