I haven’t been on here for a while , but things are slowly happening on the PTB front, but as I don’t have anything visual to offer and as you both have posted quite a lot of sketchbook pages I feel as if I have come to the party without a present!
As I say in my artist statement ‘integral to each work is a word based research period – a filofax of facts’. Posh way of saying I work by always diving into some research first which seems to settle me and allow me to think visually over the top of it while I sort he words out…
As I order and catalogue all that in my brain the visual ideas begin to come.
So – I have been looking at Malaria; which is a plasmodium. Love that word.
I keep unearthing interesting things…there are four kinds. Falciparum [lethal], Vivax, Maleri and Ovali. More brilliant words.
Malaria hides in the liver. You can get asexual parasites in blood cells. Malaria has shaped the human genome more than any other infectious disease. Malaria has been found before the arrival of humans- wow!
Now I need to find out what its pre – human host was … riveting.
There is a complicated connection between sickle cell anemia and resistance to cerebral maleria involving a Swain Langley mutation. A fabulous word again…
Blood has a part in just everything going,. Staggering. Red blood cells are Erythrocytes – one cell bodies with no nucleus – so they can pick up O2 from tissues and take it back to the lungs.
Just think about that for a minute. ..
Still interested in my malarial blood rosettes……. the more I research the more fascinated I become………
