I'm squids in

Here's a nice picture I made with bioluminescent bacteria (Photobacterium phosphoreum) at Dr. Simon Park's laboratory at the University of Surrey.

Bacterial culture and photograph by Simon Park.

a lovely rotifer

and some fruit

more pudding

someone's been eating my porridge

Well not porridge but a pink champagne jelly my friend made.

other people's breakfasts

I got a new toy

Here are some nice algae and a ciliated colony of something... from the Black Wood of Rannoch

painting a tune

Here's Owen playing a painting. It's got some lines on it made with a conductive pen, connected up with croccodile clips to a little amp that he's circuit-bending and from there to a lap-top.

Didn't do very much though, just some boring clicks, I'm sure there's fun to be had in ther but as it stands it's the most boring instrument in the world.

A Decomposition

Liz Tainsh & I have put on a show at art's complex in Edinburgh: our kiddies' workshop has turned into an ongoing collaborative drawing between us and our visitors and artists from the studios there that stray into the gallery space. This bit is a combination of drawing and a projection of a squashed section of strawberry that has begun to fungate in a delicious way...

The Look of Love

People seem to like these paintings, find them pleasing to look at. I'm glad about that for all sorts of reasons but I'm not sure how consciously I set out to achieve that. Or why it should be so. I'm wondering to what extent it is an effect of the choreography that is set up in the painting, the circles particularly - it has struck me recently that the way they make my eyes travel is very similar to the movements they make when I'm looking at something I like. Hmm.