This was my piece for the art portion of prions. I saw the long structures as neurons and dendrites in the brain, corrupted by the invading prions. The ink lent itself well to spreading in an organic way reminiscent of … Continue reading
In my drawing I decided to do a scientific cartoon. After several weeks of focusing on prions, it has been made quite clear that prions are proteins that can adopt two forms; normal, and misfolded. One single misfolded protein shouldn’t … Continue reading
Here is my piece for the visual art and prions assignment. I chose to represents the beta sheets of PrPSc, after the alpha helices of PrPc have been misfolded and malformed into the infectious PrPSc structure. This flip from … Continue reading
Art interpretation: Pathology in Patient, March 2014 Science interpretation: Visual representation of human brain tissue “infected” by Creutzfeldt-Jakob prion disease For the arts assignment that we did in last class, I attempted in my work to echo prion infected brain tissue. This … Continue reading
My project for this week is conceptually similar to the musical illustration I prepared for last week’s assignment. I find myself being continually fascinated by the perfect interlocking mechanisms embedded in human and animal biology, and the contrast of this … Continue reading
This is my representation of prions through visual art. What I decided to do was portray the progression of abnormal prions from first entering the cell body to after a significant amount of time passes. As you can tell from … Continue reading
I utilized the water, brush, twig, and black ink method Professor Rivera taught us during the first portion of class. I wanted to represent the way in which microscopic pores form in tissue sections affected by prions, causing the tissue … Continue reading