Juliana Cerqueira Leite

Dr. John Hart - Photomicrographic images

Recrystallized melted mixture of acetanalide, resorcinal and carbon tetrabromide


Melted resorcinal and carbon tetrabromide crystals


Melted resorcinal and carbon tetrabromide crystals


Crystallized resorcinal and carbon tetrabromide


Crystallized mixture of chlorobenzyl alcohol, resorcinal and sulphur


Crystallized melt of sulpher and acetanilide


Crystallized melt of resorcinal and carbon tetrabromide


Crystallized melt mixture of sulfur, resorcinal, dibenxofuran

Obscure distillations...

"Obscure distillations generate juices, salivas, yeasts. Like mists or dews, brief yet patient jellies come forth momentarily and with difficulty from a substance lately imperturbable: they are evanescent pharmacies, doomed victims of the elements, about to melt or dry up, leaving behind only a savour or a stain."
- Roger Caillois



Viktor Sykora strelitzia reginae bird of paradise seed


Jonathan Eisenback root-knot nematode perineal pattern


Frederick Keeney fern spore


Alvaro Migotto starfish embryo four cell stage


Matthias Reinhard rust on an iron round bar


Dr. Havi Sarfaty mouth of common fly


James Nicholson mushroom coral natural auto fluorescent proteins around mouth


Bruno Vellutini adolescent sand dollar


Sven Gould pellicle details of the ciliate paramecium caudatum


Thomas Shearer polished mexican fire agate

Jim Wetzel japanese medaka embryo live mount

All images courtesy of http://www.nikonsmallworld.com

Victorian Infographics:

Images courtesy of http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/

Henrik Isaksson Garnell:

Images courtesy of http://butdoesitfloat.com/

Trilobites:

Drawings of extinct trilobites by Dr. Sam Gon III:







Drawings of extinct trilobites by Dr. Sam Gon III:

Inside/Outside

…perhaps that’s what I feel, an outside and an inside and me in the middle, perhaps that’s what I am, the thing that divides the world in two, on the one side the outside on the other the inside, that can be as thin as foil, I’m neither one side not the other, I’m in the middle, I’m the partition, I’ve two surfaces and no thickness, perhaps that’s what I feel, myself vibrating, I’m the tympanum, on the one hand the mind on the other the world, I don’t belong to either…

Samuel Beckett, The Unnameable Grove Press, New York, 1991, p.283

Thea Djordjadze:

What art is about is the construction of the materials, so the materials then become aestheticised or pleasurable. The pleasure of those materials has to do with the intensification of the body. So this impulse to art is to not make oneself seductive but to made oneself intense, and in the process to circulate some of that eros that would otherwise go into sexuality.

[Elizabeth Grosz interview with Julie Copeland on Radio National 2005]

Artwork by Thea Djordjadze:

Opening abdomens:

Most creatures have a vague belief that a very precarious hazard, a kind of transparent membrane, divides death from love; and that the profound idea of nature demands that the giver of life should die at the moment of giving. Here this idea, whose memory lingers still over the kisses of man, is realised in its primal simplicity. No sooner has the union been accomplished than the male's abdomen opens, the organ detaches itself, dragging with itthe massof the entrails; the wings relax , and as though struck by lightning, the emptied body turns and turns on itself and sinks down into the abyss.

[Maurice Maeterlinck from The Life of the Bee 1901]

Images by Ernst Haeckel: