notes and observations from a parallel biome | generated on midjourney

1 of 1s now on objkt

As a full time scientist, you’d imagine that I spend a lot of time marveling at the expansiveness of our living world. I wish that were the case. The truth is that there are a lot of structures in formal (academic) science… or maybe it’s that there’s a high tendency to forge structures out of fluid systems.

As a historically masculine discipline, biology has not been allowed to be pretty in a very long time. Yet, there are interactions within and between biological entities that operate so successfully on the spectrum of grace and flamboyance-- as stewards, shouldn’t it be our responsibility to appreciate this beauty on a public stage?

Using midjourneyAI, I created this collection with intention to appreciate biological forms. I think when you work with a prompt-based AI, that’s the best way to describe the output… abstractions, forms, suggestions. Yet, it’s the fact that these shapes are not true to the biology we know that I hope offers you a new lens into a space that has been overly characterized, and overly observed, and overly structured.

To those who might end up with these unique editions, thank you & may you love science for the way it exists beyond our observation.

colophon

All parts were generated using MidJourneyAI and collaged together. They’ve been listed as 1 of 1 editions for July 2022’s 1of1xtz.

You can also grab the moodboard I used for this project which features some personal notes alongside figures from Earnst Haeckel, Franz Baur, and The Codex Seraphinanus. 1,111ed available for 0.11xtz.

supplementary materials

This time I’ve got books:

Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens, People in the Trees by Hanya Yanagihara, Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

about

Talyssa uses “PhD candidate in Microbiology” as her opening line in every bio that matters; however, like many constituents of academia these days, she is on the quest to find her plat de résistance. If you’re interested in keeping up, you can find her in other places.

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