I put all my #SciArtSeptember posts together on my blog if you’d like to see them all in one place:

https://liapas.com/2024/09/30/sciart-september-2024

September has gone by so quickly! Today's the last day of #SciArtSeptember, and the prompt is "Hexagons".

Here's a fun sketch I coded up for a Genuary challenge.

I posted a little about it on my Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/95838616

#SciArtSeptember Day 30 • epilogue • My current #embroidery in progress, an iliac vein with a stent based on the imagery from my venogram earlier this year. #SciArt

For #Fedi #SciArtSeptember Day 30 • hexagons • Bee's honeycombs are tiny hexagons. Here's a haiku from my videopoem ossa. ora (2015). #SciArt

video alt text: A bee lies in a white oval shell. Two human baby teeth lay one to each side of the shell. Animated text reads: cuspid-framed bee bed. a dry wind. stinging things gone still.

September is always such a burnt out month for me, so this year for #SciArtSeptember I ignored the prompts and just started painting bees. #SeptemBee? I ended up with dozens of little paintings of bees from five different families! Most of these bees (except for the European wool carder bee) are native to my little corner of NW #Colorado. Isn't #biodiversity beautiful?

If you like my bees, stay tuned! Next month starts #Invertober and #Inktober, and while I have not found any official invert prompt lists yet, I do intend to continue painting little guys. Maybe I'll even branch out beyond bees - I hear wasps are pretty neat.

For the #SciArtSeptember prompt epilogue: Margaret Lucas Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (1623 – 1673), 17th-century English aristocrat, philosopher, poet, scientist, writer, with her imaginary world from her strange sci-fi novel ‘The Blazing World’ from her epilogue to her ‘Observations upon Experimental Philosophy’. She’s an odd addition to my collection of scientists, … 1/n

I’m not sure if today’s #SciArtSeptember prompt of “happily ever after” is a thing that happens in the real world but I thought of the great mathematician, writer and polymath, Mary Fairfax Somerville (1780-1872). Arguably the best thing that ever happened to her was when she became a young widowed mother. Her first marriage to Lieutenant Samuel Greig had not been happy; he did not think much of women’s intellectual capacity. 1/n

For #Fedi #SciArtSeptember Day 29 • chaos • My hoop guts often look like chaos. These are from my vagus nerve #embroi­dery, the wandering ghost (2024). #SciArt

#SciArtSeptember Day 29 • happily ever after • This vagus nerve #embroidery explores polyvagal theory (PVT) sensations. PVT has helped reduce some of my #MECFS symptoms which gives me hope for the future. the wandering ghost (2024). #SciArt

#Sonification of a Feigenbaum diagram.

#SciArtSeptember day 29: Chaos

For #Fedi #SciArtSeptember Day 28 • antiparallel • There's some antiparallel stitching happening in the face of this # MECFS #symptomatology #embroidery detail: stars within, stars without (2017). #SciArt

#SciArtSeptember Day 28 • secret • There is a secret shell inside our heads, listening to secrets whispered to us. This cochlea/inner ear is titled nave of vibration (2017). #SciArt #embroidery

For the #SciArtSeptember prompt secret: Hollywood star & #inventor Hedy Lamarr (1914 – 2000). Born Hedwig Keisler in Vienna, she gained fame after her risqué starring role in Machatý's ‘33 film Ecstasy. Mandl, 1st of 6 husbands, objected & tried unsuccessfully to buy all copies of film. Hedy objected to him, a munitions manufacturer, dealing with fascists despite both being of Jewish heritage. She learned secret of her beauty

#communications tech like WiFi #linocut #printmaking #WomenInSTEM

For #Fedi #SciArtSeptember Day 27 • crown shyness • My bronchi #embroidery, she breathed (2018), is reminiscent of the branches of trees. #SciArt

#SciArtSeptember Day 27 • motherly • The uterus is the most motherly of organs. Bleeding Vessel (2022). #SciArt #embroidery

For the #sciArtSeptember prompt “motherly” my linocut portrait of a harried mama giant panda & 2 unruly cubs. They are magnificent, if funny, creatures, whose expressions make them easy to personify. They remind me of people I know.

These beautiful bears are endangered due to deforestation. Through conservation efforts, the wild giant panda population in central China, 1/2