The final product made from bacteria!!
(this is only part of the image though - it's the scene of The Creation of Adam from the Sistine Chapel. ( Just in case you don't recognize that hand) Bubba's project was funded by a grant that he recieved through our university. He decided to combine art and science while collaborating with a few fellow students with diverse skills. I helped him work on his concept, create the actual drawing and stencils that he worked with, painted the frame, and designed his final poster to present this week! (along with waking up at 4 in the morning to drive out to his lab with him to check on the pieces progess) His good friend Chris Livsey is an architecture student and super handy with tools so he custom built the frame and the box that the bacteria was grown in... There is another addition to the project that deals with a composition composed from a gene sequence by a student from Arkansas and a video created from these crazy sciene images...
Anyways, it was great to be apart of as I learned a whole lot about science :) Something that I have become absolutely clueless about since my last science class in like 8th grade.
Here are some pictures of the process.....
Spray painting on my front porch - it was freezing on this night and the next day it got up to 92 degrees... Oklahoma weather is so odd.
late night at the lab - working on creating a steril enviromnent while the bacteria starts to grow!
Playing with dry ice that we found in a cooler :)
1 comment:
This is so interesting. What a fun project. I really like how delicate the "drawing" turned out to be, at least thats what I assume from the picture of it. Lovely photos as well.
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