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A Tale of Two Amazons, Past and Present: An Olfactory Portrait of the Amazon Rainforest in Dublin and Manila

I'm concurrently exhibiting two editions of An Olfactory Portrait of the Amazon Rainforest in Dublin and Manila. These editions were selected for the exhibitions to fit their themes, and it's been fun making them for these two very different cities. The one for Science Gallery Dublin's In Case of Emergency exhibition features scents I smelled during my residency with LABVERDE in Brazil. These are things I encountered in the forest that are at risk from climate change and other human impacts.

The other one at the Manila Biennale which just opened is an edition that interprets the olfactory memories of 18th & 19th century explorers such as Alexander von Humboldt and Henry Walter Bates. I'm uncomfortably aware that these are narratives of a bunch of white guys as they were all I could find, though I intentionally picked those of naturalists. I'm still on the lookout for records that show a diversity of perspectives if you know of any (language doesn't matter) as this is an ongoing project that is one of my favorites.

(Hey, at least the one in Dublin is based on the account of a woman, of color, from the developing world and is mixed and multi in most things: me.)

Check these out in Dublin and Manila, and follow the next steps of this project and other works of The #ApocalypseProject on www.apocalypse.cc or #OlfactoryAmazon

Image credits: Science Gallery Dublin (top) and Studio CSY

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Here I discuss The Apocalypse Project in a video done for Hybrid Highlights, a group exhibition about art and science projects currently on view at Seoul National University's Museum of Art. 

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Thaumatropes!

Rorsketch cloud thaumatropes. Whee!

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Defining the density of a pulsar

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"If you cram a herd of 50 million elephants into a thimble, you get the density of a pulsar."

—Neil deGrasse Tyson

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The Mentos Launching Pad

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The Huggs Boson

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You found me

Stephen Hawking: Higgs Boson Discovery Cost Me $100 via Mashable

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Maria

Thanks, Maria!

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Jeffrey and Ava

Thanks, Jeffrey and Ava!

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Taekwondo goodbye

You'd think doing martial arts for years makes me less sentimental, but alas, no. 

Thanks for everything! I love you all! 

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Cry me a rainbow: Onion series

Cry me a rainbow 1:

Cry me a rainbow 2:

Cry me a rainbow 3:

(More on my Flickr page)

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Superfriends and The 2012 Sketchbook Project

For the 2012 Sketchbook Project, where Art House Co-op and 3rd Ward very nicely sent me a free sketchbook, I included illustrations from an ongoing illustration project called Project Superfriends, where I draw my friends as superheroes based on my memories of them. The title of the sketchbook was The Encyclopedia of Superheroes You Have Never Heard Of (to follow the encyclopedia theme I picked). Here are some of the sketches:

See how the project unfolds here. 

Thanks, Art House Co-op and 3rd Ward!

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Would you like to be a HappyAgent?

A poster for the DrawHappy project:

Free downloads here. Put them in your local cafe, community bulletin board, walls, etc. Spread the love!

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Donut cloud

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Ice cream cloud

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Brainbow

It's.... Magical Rainbow Bridge Time!

For Benjamin.

P.S. Brainbow is also an awesome neuroimaging technique.

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Elizabeth Streb

This week, I had the pleasure of interviewing Elizabeth Streb, extreme action choreographer, for a series of articles I am writing about how drawing figures in a creative person's process.

Article/s to follow in my writing blog, but I was so moved by the interview that I decided to draw. She is one classy lady and a true artist. Thank you, Elizabeth, for such a lovely, gracious interview. And for showing me your markers.