Darwin would appreciate this. (2014)
A meditation on Darwin’s collection of natural specimens and the array of small fetishes he kept in his study at Down House. Darwin’s intensive investigation of the variations in species and morphology of barnacles prepared him for the completion of his greatest work, Origin of Species. Red cedar vessel, with pyrography, and with inset of barnacle found on beach, Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica. 7” height with lid. (Photo credit: Aaron Usher III)
Scallop salt box (2014)
Amboyna burl salt box, with handmade brass scallop shell. (Photo credit: Aaron Usher III)
Beta-amyloid pompons attached to neuronal microvasculature. (2017)
China Blue & Peter J. Snyder (Collaboration, 2017). Plastic filament 3D print, with design based on a groundbreaking vascular casting and scanning electron microscopy study of Meyer et al. (2008), published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences(USA). Beta-amyloid protein forming “pompom-like” clumps attached to brain microvessels of APP23 transgenic mice, an animal model of Alzheimer’s disease (AD). This toxic form of amyloid protein is characteristic of AD, and is believed to cause early damage to the microvasculature. (Photo credit: Aaron Usher III)