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Working on my next print for the #PrinterSolstice2526 prompt: two. I have a theme of replication and the place printmaking and science intersect for this one. 👩🏼‍🔬🧪🐡#histsci This microbiologist put her experience working in her father’s print shop in her youth to work, when she (and her more famous husband) developed replica plating, an invaluable tool in their field, still used today. 🧵

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My green Lino block in progress shows a partially carved portrait of a woman with curly short hair in a 1940s hairdo, shirt with collar and gloves, holding a Petri dish vertically in each hand in front of her. There’s a small carving gauge on my block.

For #printerSolstice2526 prompt division here is my #linocut portrait of Agnes Pockels (1862-1935), the self-taught scientist who pioneered surface science.

As a woman she did not get the chance to go to university & study physics like her theoretical physicist brother Friedrich, who discovered the Pockels effect. So at 18 she took her "passionate interest for natural science" to her household chores &
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My Lino block portrait of Agnes Pockels holding her pen and notebook by her trough (which was 70 cm by 5 cm and 2 cm deep, with a ruler along its length and a sliding divider). There is a button attached to an apothecary scale in the through so she can measure surface tension. She has her hair up and wears a dress and a cross on a necklace. She is surrounded by soap bubbles and you can see text in reverse for the Pockels point, 20 angstroms squared. She is in a gradient of dark forest green to lime from the base of the print upwards. The text, bubbles, and swirling patterns in the soap film in the front of her through are in pale pinkish purple.

Working on my next print for #PrinterSolstice2526 -another scientist portrait for the prompt division. I decided to interpret it like the ‘dividing line’ or interface & highlight the life & work of autodidact Agnes Pockels (1862-1935). Not allowed to attend university as a woman to pursue her interest in physics, she was expected to keep house & care for her ailing parents, so she became fascinated with what was occurring in her soapy dishwater and 🧵

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carved green vinyl Lino block portrait of Agnes Pockels holding her pen and notebook by her trough (which was 70 cm by 5 cm and 2 cm deep, with a ruler along its length and a sliding divider). There is a button attached to an apothecary scale in the through so she can measure surface tension. She has her hair up and wears a dress and a cross on a necklace. She is surrounded by soap bubbles and you can see text in reverse for the Pockels point, 20 angstroms.

For #PrinterSolstice2526 prompt expression: my #linocut of Olga Ladyzhenskaya (1922-2004), a #mathematician who overcame personal tragedy, faced Soviet totalitarianism & the catastrophic political upheaval of the 20th century to make a huge impact on the math, making important contributions to study of partial differential equations (PDEs). She changed the way PDEs are examined & popularized the 🧵
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The next #PrinterSolstice2526 prompt is expression so I am working on a portrait of one of the great 20th century mathematicians, Olga Ladyzhenskaya (1922-2004). She made immense contributions to the study of partial differential equations, particularly with the Navier-Stokes equations and fluid dynamics and she was brave and kind in her personal life, 🧵

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For the 5th prompt of #PrinterSolstice2526 odd: This is my 8” x 8” lino block print on delicate Japanese washi paper of a seven-spotted lady beetle, or ladybird or lady bug (Coccinella septempunctata) on a pink apple blossom. Like most blossoms it has an odd number of leaves (5) & like some lady beetles, this one obviously has an odd number of spots.

#linocut #printmaking #insect #blossom #ladybug #ladybeetle #ladybird

As the 12yo pointed out, not a scientist this week. https://minouette.etsy.com/listing/4444561272

My 8” x 8” linocut print shows a seven-spotted lady beetle in red and black with white on a pale pink apple blossom with yellow centre and darker pink outlines

The 4th prompt for #PrinterSolstice2526 is “subtraction” so I thought of a scientist & talented writer who brought the world’s attention to what was missing. After publishing the sea trilogy in the 40s & 50s, when marine biologist & conservationist Rachel Carson (1907-1964) published Silent Spring in 1962 she captured the world’s attention to the risks to health & environment posed by pesticides & DDT in particular. 🧵

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My linocut portrait shows a short-haired woman (Rachel Carson, later in her life) looking over her shoulder at the viewer in this oval-shaped print on 9.25” x 12.5” cream coloured washi paper. Above and behind her are assorted birds, below is water, various fish, sea turtle, kelp and small sea life. She’s got a monarch butterfly on her shoulder. The print is in a gradient of purple at the bottom through turquoise to slate at the top. Sea life includes jumping salmon, shark, sea turtle, anemone, urchin, crab, shellfish and kelp. Bird life includes an osprey with a fish, a black skimmer, a peregrine falcon, a flock of Canada geese, an American robin, a chestnut-sided warbler and her favourite, a veery. Some animals are hand-tinted with gouache.

Working on my next print for the #PrinterSolstice2526 prompt subtraction- a scientist who brought the world’s attention to what was missing where there had been indiscriminate pesticide use, and DDT in particular. Award-winning science writer and marine biologist Rachel Carson (1907-1964) wasn’t the first to try to sound the alarm about unintended consequences, harm to wildlife, 🧵

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This is my Lino block in progress on a cutting mat next to two gauges. Lightly purple tinted so you can see what’s white and carved away, a short-haired woman (Rachel Carson, later in her life) looks over her shoulder at the viewer in this oval-shaped block. Above and behind her are assorted birds, below is water, various fish, sea turtle, kelp and small sea life.

The 3rd prompt of #printerSolstice2526 is one so I made a #linocut of the 1st woman to earn a doctorate in science, physicist and professor Laura Maria Caterina Bassi Veratti (née, & known throughout her life as Bassi, 1711-1778). I've shown her surrounded by the sort of state-of-the-art instrumentation she would have used in her lab to investigate electricity: an electrical machine, conductors, an aurora flask, a luminous discharge tube, 🧵 #printmaking #womenInSTEM #histsci #physics #mastoArt

My linocut on white Japanese paper shows 18th century woman (Laura Bassi) in dress with fur cape, and hair in ringlets with a hairpiece which echoes a laurel crown. She’s holding an open book with Newtonian optics diagrams and in front of her is an electrical machine (a stand with vertical large glass plate and hand crank and brass tubes to channel the large electrostatic charges it could generate through friction). She is surrounded by typical high tech lab equipment of her day like conductors, an aurora flask, a luminous discharge tube, a Lane electrometer, Leyden jars and Volta's electric pistol. It’s printed in a gradient of a hint of turquoise through violet to red-magenta to bronze from the bottom to the top.

The next #printerSolstice2526 prompt is ‘one’ so I selected a woman who was often the first: first woman science doctorate, first woman physics professor and first woman member of a scientific academy, the Academy of Sciences at the Institute of Bologna: Laura Bassi (1711-1778).

She was quite famous and there are several portraits of her, usually depicted as Minerva, goddess of wisdom. 🧵

#wip #histsci #linocut #printmaking #womenInSTEM #histsci #LauraBassi #physics #electricity #optics

My carved Lino block on cutting mat shows 18th century woman (Laura Bassi) in dress with fur cape, and hair in ringlets with a hairpiece which echoes a laurel crown. She’s holding an open book with Newtonian optics diagrams and in front of her is an electrical machine (a stand with vertical large glass plate and hand crank and brass tubes to channel the large electrostatic charges it could generate through friction). She is surrounded by typical high tech lab equipment of her day like conductors, an aurora flask, a luminous discharge tube, a Lane electrometer, Leyden jars and Volta's electric pistol.

For the #PrinterSolstice2526 prompt ‘even’ -the number of quarks in a meson, a type of particle first observed & published by Bibha Chowdhuri (1913-1991) & her supervisor D.M. Bose in extensive air showers from cosmic rays. My portrait shows her, a mountain on which she gathered her data & a schematic of the cascade of particles we find in cosmic rays.

Born in Kolkata, her family’s Bramohist faith quite unusually 🧵
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