About me:
I am based in Edmonton Alberta Canada. I have recently graduated with a Bachelor of Science with Specialization in Immunology and Infection at the U of A. I’ve found that being immersed in science is somewhat stifling to my artistic and creative thought processes. I wanted to find a way to express my creative side. A hybrid of what I spend most of my time studying, cells and microbes, and art seemed to be the most organic way of expressing myself. There are many strange and wonderful things to be seen under a microscope, examples of a marriage between science and artful design. I created the phage. line of t-shirts as a form of wearable art. “Phage” comes from bacteriophage, a virus-like organism, which is able to reproduce within bacteria. Using a screen-printing method each t-shirt is hand painted onto North American made t-shirts. I have only recently started with this endeavor and hope to expand with designs of other organisms as well as the styles of clothing printed with the original bacteriophage design.
Signature bacteriophage
A bacteriophage is a virus-like organism, which injects its and associated proteins into bacteria. The bacteria
then serve as factories and produce many copies of the phage genome and protein body. The progeny phage are
released when the bacteria is exploded by the mass of phage
Volvox
Volvox, an algae colony with daughter and granddaughter cells in varying stages of development. Volvox are a
species of algae which grow in fresh water. Each colony contains up to 500 cells and can move through pond water
using its flagella in concerted movements.
Fungal Fruiting Bodies
This shirt shows two fungal fruiting bodies. These will lead to spore formation and subsequent generations of
fungi.
Ebola
A virus that pops up every now and again in the African jungle. A rather unpleasant virus which will pretty much
liquify your insides. A related species of this virus had an outbreak in a lab in Germany and is therefore called the Margburg virus. Both viruses are of the Filoviridae family because of their filament type structure.
Red Blood Cells
These lovely little cells make up part of your blood. The heme iron containing group is responsible for carrying oxygen from the lungs to all the cells in your body and likewise removing carbon dioxide to your lungs.
B DNA
The building blocks of life which encode for everything from your eye colour to your toes.
E. coli conjugation
Two E. coli cells joined by an F pilus exchanging some plasmid DNA...in other words, the closest that bacteria can get to sex!