Fantasy & Nature Gallery
I spent many happy days in the jungle in Ecuador with our Quechua guide. The flowers and plants were the most amazing I had ever seen. It was truly a magical place.
" class="pp-album-img" /> Custom print sizes availableThe squirrel in the foreground was used on a card for my mother when she was in the hospital. She said, “It could be better.” I redid the squirrel, and it was better. My client at the time said, “Mother knows best.”
" class="pp-album-img" /> Custom print sizes availableLife in a desert is rich and abundant. This image calls to mind Carlos Castaneda’s books about Don Juan, the Yaqui mystic. In the desert, even the wind is alive.
" class="pp-album-img" /> Custom print sizes availableThe colorful grassland environment is a joyous place filled with all kinds of activity.
" class="pp-album-img" /> Custom print sizes availableA pond rife with life.
" class="pp-album-img" /> Custom print sizes availableThis is one of 90 illustrations from a book the artist illustrated for Brooklyn Botanic Gardens in Brooklyn, New York, entitled, Gardening with Children.
" class="pp-album-img" /> Custom print sizes availableThis is one of 90 illustrations from a book the artist illustrated for Brooklyn Botanic Gardens in Brooklyn, New York, entitled, Gardening with Children.
" class="pp-album-img" /> Custom print sizes availableDuring my time in Tokyo, I witnessed the higgledy-piggledy chaos of Tokyo construction, architecture, and the subway transit system, all from a train’s-eye view.
" class="pp-album-img" /> Custom print sizes availableWitnessing the urban chaos of my first year living in New York City. Madness and mayhem in the East Village!
" class="pp-album-img" /> Custom print sizes availableWalking this bridge at the end of the orkday helped me clear my mind and adjust to life in New York City after my move from Tokyo.
" class="pp-album-img" /> Custom print sizes availableSeen in a pizza joint a block from where I lived on Avenue A in the East Village of New York City: an anchovy story!
" class="pp-album-img" /> Custom print sizes availableI created this rubbing for a class assignment at the first of three art & design schools I attended in the California Bay Area. Can you spot the Transamerica Building?
" class="pp-album-img" /> Custom print sizes availableA New York Times assignment for the Sunday Magazine Hers column. A woman finally found her way out of substance abuse when she realized she had been caring very poorly for her cat named “Blue.” According to the story, at one point, she threw raw bacon in his dish.
" class="pp-album-img" /> Custom print sizes availableMicrobes multiply so rapidly, that in only ten hours, one bacterium can yield billions of bacteria. Of course, it helps to have a glass of champagne, a rose, and a fez nearby! Especially after attending a production of Wagner’s Ring Cycle at the Met!
" class="pp-album-img" /> Custom print sizes availableDeinococcus Radiodurans, which means “strange or terrible berry that withstands radiation,” was discovered in 1956 during experiments in sterilizing packaged food using radiation instead of heat.
The microbes simply refused to die. Dubbed “Conan the Bacterium”, the microbes can withstand 3,000 times the radiation that would kill a human being! D. Radiodurans is believed to be some two billion years old. It may well be one of the earliest forms of life on “our” planet.
" class="pp-album-img" /> Custom print sizes availableIn the 1920s, scientists collected bacteria from oil deposits in sedimentary rocks 600 meters below ground. These organisms evolved from microbes buried 340 million years ago when the sedimentary rocks were formed, and dinosaurs walked the earth above. These heat-loving bacteria, or “thermophiles,” thrive at an ambient temperature of 167 degrees Fahrenheit.
" class="pp-album-img" /> Custom print sizes availableHydrothermal vents are chimney-like structures on the ocean floor. They form when hot (350 degree Centigrade) mineral-rich water flows out onto the ocean floor through volcanic lava. The metals and gases give the water a smoky, blackish appearance. These hydrothermal vents support vast ecosystems, the only communities on Earth whose energy source is not sunlight. The organisms include tubeworms, octopi, zoarcid fish, clams, shrimp, crabs, etc. Because they thrive in heat, they are called “thermophiles.”
" class="pp-album-img" /> Custom print sizes availableHalophiles, or “salt-lovers,” can thrive in extremely salty water that would be fatal to other life forms, due to their resistance to the dehydrating effects of salt. The Dead Sea is the saltiest and lowest body of water on earth at 400 feet below sea level. The halophilic microorganisms give the Dead Sea its distinctly purple color.
" class="pp-album-img" /> Custom print sizes availableSome anaerobic bacteria contain strands of magnetic lodestone crystals, which orient the bacteria in the direction of earth’s magnetic fields and, at the same time, pull the microbes downward, keeping them in an oxygen-free environment at the bottom of mud puddles. This phenomenon is called “magnetotaxis.”
" class="pp-album-img" /> Custom print sizes availableAccording to the theory of panspermia, life on Earth was seeded from space by microbes hitch-hiking to Earth on comets and asteroids like the ALH84001 meteor from Mars.
" class="pp-album-img" /> Custom print sizes availableOrganisms have been found in the highest freshwater lake in the world, in the caldera of dormant Licancabur Volcano in Chile. In spite of low oxygen, high ultra-violet radiation, and low atmospheric pressure, these anaerobes thrive in one of the most Mars-like places on earth.
" class="pp-album-img" /> Custom print sizes availableMicrobes in the rumen of cattle feed on forages ingested by cattle. They are called “methanogens” because they produce methane gas through fermentation.
" class="pp-album-img" /> Custom print sizes availableHer name is Mathilde, “The Medieval Microbe.”
" class="pp-album-img" />The artist adored the jungle in Ecuador.
" class="pp-album-img" /> Custom print sizes availableThe artist used the squirrel in a get well card for her mother in the hospital.
" class="pp-album-img" /> Custom print sizes availableThe desert is full of life.
" class="pp-album-img" /> Custom print sizes availableGrasslands support a large ecosystem.
" class="pp-album-img" /> Custom print sizes availableA pond rife with life.
" class="pp-album-img" /> Custom print sizes availableThe friendliest scarecrow ever.
" class="pp-album-img" /> Custom print sizes availableHummingbirds are magical.
" class="pp-album-img" /> Custom print sizes availableThe artist depicts chaotic construction in Tokyo.
" class="pp-album-img" /> Custom print sizes availableThe artist’s initial experience of New York City.
" class="pp-album-img" /> Custom print sizes availableThe artist walked the bridge every day.
" class="pp-album-img" /> Custom print sizes availableAn East Village pizza story.
" class="pp-album-img" /> Custom print sizes availableA San Francisco design school assignment.
" class="pp-album-img" /> Custom print sizes availableA New York Times Sunday Magazine assignment.
" class="pp-album-img" /> Custom print sizes availableFrom the artist’s Extreme Life Form series.
" class="pp-album-img" /> Custom print sizes availableFrom the artist’s Extreme Life Form series.
" class="pp-album-img" /> Custom print sizes availableFrom the artist’s Extreme Life Form series.
" class="pp-album-img" /> Custom print sizes availableFrom the artist’s Extreme Life Form series.
" class="pp-album-img" /> Custom print sizes availableFrom the artist’s Extreme Life Form series.
" class="pp-album-img" /> Custom print sizes availableFrom the artist’s Extreme Life Form series.
" class="pp-album-img" /> Custom print sizes availableFrom the artist’s Extreme Life Form series.
" class="pp-album-img" /> Custom print sizes availableFrom the artist’s Extreme Life Form series.
" class="pp-album-img" /> Custom print sizes availableFrom the artist’s Extreme Life Form series.
" class="pp-album-img" /> Custom print sizes availableFrom the artist’s Extreme Life Form series.
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