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@colleenann.com
