i only have two phosphorescent rocks and this is one of them, it’s a tiny piece of calcite! it only phosphoresces under short-wave UV light! (if i put it under long wave it fluoresces hot pink! but doesn’t keep glowing after i take the uv off)

Andrew Wyeth :: Night Hauling 1944 :: Tempera on masonite :: Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine

Night Hauling was painted by the twenty-seven-year-old Andrew Wyeth at the height of World War Two. Set against the Maine coast in Port Clyde, where Wyeth’s family summered, it depicts a shadowy lobsterman hauling in a trap under cover of darkness, the scene lit only by the figure’s concealed lamp and the water’s startling nocturnal phosphorescence. 

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“There are few things as startling as encountering an unearthly glow in the wild. Glow-worms. Ghost mushrooms. Fireflies. Flashlight fish. Lantern sharks. Vampire squid. Our forest floors and ceilings, our ocean depths and fringes are full of luminous beings, creatures lit from the inside. And they have, for many centuries, enchanted us, like glowing missionaries of wonder, emissaries of awe. Is there anything more beautiful than living light?”

I have finally finished what was my initial plan for the Atomic Jacket

Patches are sewn on and everything that was painted has a special coat added.

Now for a big reveal!

Phosphorescence!!!

And the blue one at that. It mimics Cherenkov radiation. It's not very strong, unless left for a while under the sunlight, but it can do for now.

Currently, I am thinking about what I could add to the Jacket. Perhaps I will paint arm bones with bleach along the sleeves to mimic radiographs. More patches are also in consideration.

Signed, enjoying the start of the spring,

↪Timeline by Hey, Nothing / Unknown found on Pinterest / Franz Kafka Diaries (via: @/dailykafka on tumblr) / The Hours by Michael Cunningham / Song for Zula by Phosphorescent / My diary / Unknown / The Night We Met by Lord Huron

These are some fun pieces! Golden calcite that is fluorescent AND phosphorescent on sparkling druzy quartz.