Monday, December 14, 2009

What It Became, The Demon



This is a Lynda Barry rip off, one of her one hundred demons.  I was looking in her book for inspiration, and this little demon suggested that she was that inspiration. So I carved her into clay.

Another new thing:


What the hell is it? It's a stylized carving of a nuclear pore complex, the structure that allows proteins to pass into eukaryotic cell nuclei. I took that drawing from notes from a cell biology class that I took ten years ago when researchers had just published the first structural studies.

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