Expressing the change of PrPC to PrPSc through a choreographed dance allowed for the representation of alpha-helices, beta sheets, and the act of transformation in a creative way. The lecture on movement and how muscles work was very fascinating, as … Continue reading
The Muscle and Movement lecture presented the scientific basis for synthesizing human movement in an evolutionary context. Furthermore, it also explained muscle control in terms of fine control of force and movements. As the lecture explained, muscle drives movement and … Continue reading
This week’s topic on muscles and movements provided a fresh insight into a branch of biology that deals with more ‘normal’ functions of our body parts. Although Professor Ellerby did not talk in depth about prion disease and its effect … Continue reading
Through my performance art video, I wanted to show the method in which prions propagate. I sought to display the progression of the prions propagating, as one misfolded prion approaches a normal protein, converts it, and approaches another normal one … Continue reading
I really enjoyed professor Ellerby’s talk on muscles and movement in conjunction with the great exercise we got from the NIA routine! It was fun to see many different techniques from martial art, dance and mindfulness be combined into a … Continue reading
I chose to depict the transformation of healthy prion proteins into the rapid, violent and permanent digression to a wasting disease. I utilized a wet background to initiate the original paint application.Other skills were straw blowing and allowing paint … Continue reading
I chose to represent these two amino acids, respectively Alanine and Tyrosine. I thought the pastel colors represented with the help of different liquids and this specific kind of paper were very interesting, but not representative of the diminished … Continue reading
Even though I was not able to come to class to hear the lecture on music, I found it very interesting to incorporate the sequence of PrPSc into a song. I created a song on Finale Notepad (a music software that … Continue reading
Through an artistic piece, I was able to show alpha-helices changing into beta sheets. My piece represents the chaos that wrongly-folded prions can create within a host. The main focus is the faint oval with circles representing PrPC and PrPSc. … Continue reading
I thoroughly enjoyed the art lectures given in the past week, particularly in regards to the use of specific chemical liquids to create colors on a biodegradable sheet of paper essentially made from food. The colors reflected beautiful, soft pastels … Continue reading