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Lab Illustrations
Hand-rendered “portraits” capture the process and practices of staff biologists.
Where: Gallery 4: Living Systems
Conklin spent several weeks observing the Exploratorium's life sciences laboratory and produced a number of original works that capture the inner workings of the facility. Beyond hand-rendered “portraits” of the many organisms cultured in the lab, Conklin successfully and beautifully captured the process and practices of staff biologists.
Aliases:
Interpreting the Living Systems Lab
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An impossibly beautiful bowl of fruit decays at an accelerated pace via time-lapse editing.
