Wired Magazine posted our Microscopic Wonderland art!  It is of a flea dressed as the White Rabbit from Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.  He is walking through a forest of black mold spores, nothing like Johnny Depp and the Alice movie coming out.  This is from our book Alice's Adventures in a Microscopic Wonderland, which we have yet to publish-but we are trying!  Dennis Kunkel and I are just now trying to get an agent.  The store to buy prints from the book is up though; they really are beautiful fine art giclee prints in high resolution.  You can find them at www.microscopicclassics.com.

Best,

Colleen Champ

Hello all and Happy Holidays!

As some may know, Dennis Kunkel and I won first place in the National Science Foundation's Visualization Challenge, an international competition of scientific art.  We were featured on the cover of Science Magazine in September, and have represented Internationally in the New York Times, National Geographic, and more.  We had a deluge of interest in the winning peice of art, titled "The Mad Hatter's Tea", and want to keep our fans updated.  For those new to us, "The Mad Hatter's Tea" is a mimesis of a scene from Lewis Carroll's,  Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.  The winning image is an  amazing bricolage of microscopic organisms; cliffs of bread mold, grass of crystalized vitamin C; the Mad Hatter (a Confused Flour Beetle--not Johnny Depp!) rests his antenna on the head of the Dormouse (a Lady Bug), whilst sipping from cups of mosquito larvae.  These are all extremely detailed, high resolution images taken with a scanning electron microscope, creatively arranged into a scene. Yum Yum!! 

 If you find awe and fascination in the beauty of our microscopic universe, you will love this art!  It's perfect for that 'hard to buy'  gift for anyone interested in biology, or the classics, good for medical offices, too.   We have "The Mad Hatter's Tea" for sale at our E-store, www.microscopicwonderland.com.  For you fans who already purchased the print, please come back to see  "The Hookah Smoking Caterpillar"!  The Caterpillar, played by a wood termite, sits on a beautiful purple protozoa  smoking a hookah--a must see!

The above image is a small detail taken from "The Mad Hatter's Tea".  

Happy Holidays,

Colleen Champ

colleen@colleenann.com