Floating or projecting themselves by pushing water through a self created vacuum, these creatures are incredible.

Plankton propel and turn. What ways can movement be recorded.

Cyan blue trees

18"x20" liquid and trees cyanotype print. 

went for a walk back through India Point today.

started messing around with these images I brought back, remembering gum bichromate printing--a color layering 19th century antique photographic process.  I want to keep exploring different color pallets on my down time-- y'know, that GD life.

chasing precious animals

octopus pendant, chased 24 gauge copper plate with black and brownpatina, 2014.

pregnant fish pendant,  chased 20 gauge copper with brown patina 2014.

jellyfish object,  chased 24 gauge copper with black and brown patina 2014.

Jellyfish, too, are a type of plankton. 

These small metal objects in hand make a tactile relationship to these creatures. I can see a number of these jelly sculptures as a series representing the growth cycles from polyp to medusa, the commonly known bell-shaped stage (above). Possibly some microscopic video footage that I've collected of their movements and closeups of their gelatinous clear surface to contrast textures and scale.

movement, relationships, network: Moments from plankton portraits. 

Plankton collection in Narragansett Bay (Feb. '14). 
After the long storm after storm this past winter we were so lucky on this day to have the sun shining .

 Drawing of microscopic larvae- so far one of my favorite critters captured.

Copepod collected from Narragansett Bay in Providence, RI.

Untouched

Here are some images captured of plankton directly under the microscope:

The rainbow colors are created via the refraction of the light through the water in which they sit; the yellow-green is due to the pigmentation from chlorophyll.

Some sick designs emerge when they cluster together. Just as much as they are literal microscopic photographs of diatoms, they also become decorative designs as well.

URI friends.

Student on the waters.

Remember the environments they live in, outside of the lab.