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Medical and Science Jewelry

Dr Vorobev on Etsy

embroidery: floral lungs #3

each bronchial branch was researched and carefully placed to make this piece as anatomically correct as possible - and then they were covered in flowers so you can’t even tell. 

this piece is on etsy!

instagram: @moleculart_ 

| Hands of Awe | The completed piece. The hands are raised, in awe-filled supplication, and the exposed anatomy illustrates the complex beauty that is not just around us, but also within us — sometimes all we need to do is stop to appreciate it.

“We will show them Our signs in the horizons and within themselves until it becomes clear to them that it is the truth […].” [41:53]

Blown Glass Microbiology Sculptures

by artist Luke Jerram

“Luke Jerram has created a number of extraordinary art projects which have excited and inspired people around the globe.Luke Jerram’s practice involves the creation of sculptures, installations, live arts projects and gifts. He is a Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the University of West of England. 

About Glass Microbiology Glass Microbiology is a body of glass work which has been developed by artist Luke Jerram since 2004. Made to contemplate the global impact of each disease, the artworks are created as alternative representations of viruses to the artificially coloured imagery received through the media. In fact, viruses have no colour as they are smaller than the wavelength of light. By extracting the colour from the imagery and creating jewel-like beautiful sculptures in glass, a complex tension has arisen between the artworks’ beauty and what theyrepresent.

The Glass Microbiology sculptures are in museum collections around the world, including The Metropolitan Museum, NYC, The Wellcome Collection, London and The Museum of Glass, Shanghai. They are also regularly displayed in exhibitions around the globe and also sold to private collectors. In 2010, Jerram received the 25th Rakow Award for the series from The Corning Museum of Glass, New York. In 2009, his sculptures were presented at The Mori Museum, Tokyo along with work by Damien Hirst, Warhol and Leonardo da Vinci.

His transparent and colourless glassworks consider how the artificial colouring of scientific microbiological imagery, affects our understanding of these phenomena. See these examples of HIV imagery. If some images are coloured for scientific purposes, and others altered simply for aesthetic reasons, how can a viewer tell the difference? How many people believe viruses are brightly coloured? Are there any colour conventions and what kind of ‘presence’ do pseudocoloured images have that ‘naturally’ coloured specimens don’t? How does the choice of different colours affect their reception?

Photographs of Jerram’s glass artworks are now used widely in medical journals, text books and media stories and are seen as useful representations of virology within the scientific community. His work has been presented in the Lancet, the British Medical Journal and on the front cover of Nature Magazine.

The sculptures are designed in consultation with virologists from the University of Bristol, using a combination of different scientific photographs and models. They are made in collaboration with glassblowers Kim George, Brian Jones and Norman Veitch.

Limited Editions Jerram’s Glass Microbiology artworks are available for sale to private collectors and public museums. Artworks are signed and dated, limited editions of just 5.”

Floral Anatomy Brain, oil on wood, Trisha Thompson Adams

Knit cushion collection. (Caduceus, Rod of Asclepius, RBC.