Diatom pendant
Diatoms are beautiful algae that live in carefully constructed glass houses called frustules that bear distinctive patterns of small holes in radial or bilateral symmetry.
Diatom bracelet
The diatom frustule is represented in a larger form in this bracelet.
Euglena pendant
Euglena is a common alga that you may see in bright green pond water, but is also distinctive for its complex coat made up of numerous strips that slide between one another to change its shape.
Virus pendant
Viruses outnumber cells manyfold and push our definition of ‘life’. Some viruses are protected by a simple capsid, or protein shell, but others make use of complex geometric shapes, like this icosahedron.
Amoeba bracelet
Amoebae are probably the most easily recognised of the microbial forms.
This amoeba warps around the wrist.
"I think" pendant
“I think” in Morse code using oak and wenge surrounded by maple.
This series of pieces represents a key moment in the history of biology when Charles Darwin wrote “I think” and sketched an iconic tree in his notebook, capturing the idea of evolutionary relatedness. Here, the words “I think” are hidden in the patterns of wood using Morse code and binary.
"I think" pendant
“I think” in binary code.
This series of pieces represents a key moment in the history of biology when Charles Darwin wrote “I think” and sketched an iconic tree in his notebook, capturing the idea of evolutionary relatedness. Here, the words “I think” are hidden in the patterns of wood using Morse code and binary.
Ciliate cytoskelton pendant
Sleigh diagram of the ciliate cytoskeleton using cherry, birch, wenge, and wire.
This series of pieces represent structural complexity. Electron microscopist Michael Sleigh realized that complicated three dimensional subcellular structures, or the cytoskeleton, in distantly related microbes could be compared by conceptually transforming them to
simple two-dimensional shorthand, since called Sleigh diagrams.
Kelp cytoskelton pendant
Sleigh diagram of the kelp cytoskeleton using walnut, birch, and wire.
This series of pieces represent structural complexity. Electron microscopist Michael Sleigh realized that complicated three dimensional subcellular structures, or the cytoskeleton, in distantly related microbes could be compared by conceptually transforming them to
simple two-dimensional shorthand, since called Sleigh diagrams.
Oomycete cytoskelton pendant
Sleigh diagram of the oomycete cytoskeleton using walnut, birch, and wire.
This series of pieces represent structural complexity. Electron microscopist Michael Sleigh realized that complicated three dimensional subcellular structures, or the cytoskeleton, in distantly related microbes could be compared by conceptually transforming them to
simple two-dimensional shorthand, since called Sleigh diagrams.
DNA pendant
Human DNA barcode in four woods surrounded by walnut.
This piece represents the ultimate biological code, that of DNA. The series of four different woods, each one of the four nucleotide ‘letters’, spells out part of the universal DNA ‘barcode’ for humans, a fragment of the mitochondrial CO1 gene. The DNA barcode is designed to distinguish all life, and over the region shown here humans and chimpanzees are identical but for a single letter, emphasizing our close relationship.