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Also James Prosek's full-wall #biodiversity drawings.
And so many more - go to the exhibition webpage and see them all! https://t.co/Ouz8laJ0H8

But when he portrays other forms, like spiders and frogs, he often enhances them, making them more fanciful. This tendency feeds into the issue some have with his work - crossing the fine line betw illustration and art. Is this what he sees or what he wants to see? @BeelsJDC

@BeelsJDC The paper shrinks as it dries, forming a strong, taut skin. If it is thin enough, it is translucent. Both flax and abaca can be prepared to shrink this way. I usually use flax, Linum usitatissimum, meaning “most useful.” And it is!!

So I do get a little bummed when people focus a little too much on the visual specifics. It's art! After all, this is not really what women look like

Last word to David Sipress!

The @NewYorker cartoonists LOVE evolution. And I love @NewYorker cartoons, so I'll share a few here. Many use the classic "ascent of man" imagery (by Tom Toro)

And me! During my visit to @Biol4Ever lab, we made some ink paintings of the fruit flies they work on

First, here’s a classic painting by Louis Agassiz Fuertes of the passenger pigeon.

He works in a similar style, usually making large, highly naturalistic watercolors, but with an edge. Instead of leaving nature pure and pristine, he usually makes some reference to how humans are messing with it. (Notice the detail of the burning building)

Around the same time, French artist Odilon Redon took Darwin’s ideas and spun them off in a more fanciful direction, producing his own book called “Les Origines” in 1883 with images of creatures blended from humans, plants and animals.