Day 22 #artAdventCalendar my bee (and other pollinator) propaganda I made for Manufactured Ecosystems. Thinking about the future of pollination and seeking solutions from technological and nature-based knowledge. This is essentially my conclusion: we can aid our beleaguered pollinators with technology but their continued success is vital. 🧵

#linocut #printmaking #sciart #typography #insects #entomology #ecology #pollinators #nativeBees #butterflies #moths #manufacturedEcosystems #mastoArt

Day 10 #artAdventCalendar A piece for Manufactured Ecosystems about the future of pollination about who decides what gets pollinated if humans and our devices are the only pollinators.

The definition of “weed” is usually pretty arbitrary and usually all sorts of native plants get caught up in our human biases. Milkweed is insanely popular with the pollinators in my garden and 🧵

#linocut #sciart #printmaking #pollination #future #milkweed #ecology #manufacturedEcosystems #mastoArt

Day 5 of #artAdventCalendar - For the Manufactured Ecosystems art show about the future of pollination I looked at what nature-inspired technologies exist or are already proposed or that I could envision to pollinate plants, faced with a precipitous drop in pollinator numbers. But, I am also turned an artist’s eye to larger implications.

There are already researchers working on artificial pollination with tiny 🧵

#sciart #linocut #printmaking #pollination #pollinators #manufacturedEcosystems

We’ve made it to December so that means it’s time for #ArtAdventCalendar! I enjoy taking part and just sharing art every day and take the opportunity to go back over new work I made during the year.

Day 1. I am sharing the pollinator garden work which I made for my show about the future of pollination for Manufactured Ecosystems. 🧵

#printmaking #wildflowers #sciart #pollination #mastoArt #monarchButterfly #CanadaColumbine #ecosystems #linocut #bumblebee #manufacturedecosystems

Day 28 #SciArtSeptember prompt harvest. Echoing my print of insects for Manufactured Ecosystems about the future of pollination this print is intended to drive home how much we are dependent on insect pollinators. These are many of the food crops we grow here in Ontario which benefit from insects. I didn’t include crops grown for oil or as livestock feed. (Some are representative of a category, 🧵

#linocut #printmaking #mastoArt #ManufacturedEcosystems #food #agriculture #pollination

A little #scicomm in the garden: you might remember I repurposed one of the prints I was working on for #ManufacturedEcosystems for a local pollinator garden. It’s now up, with its hand-printed collection of native bees and message in amongst the pollinators (native and introduced) in the garden.

#linocut #printmaking #sciart #bees #nativeBees #pollinators #garden #mastoArt

A few other pollinators in this 🧵

I’m giving a talk tomorrow about my work about the Future of Pollination tomorrow for #ManufacturedEcosystems

You can join live or watch later if you want to hear about how I approached this and the artwork I made for the exhibit!

https://zoom.us/j/91236050990?pwd=kWFFwR71jUUW2mkmXIX5hRXxJFwKbm.1

#sciart #printmaking #pollinators

For #PollinatorWeek I am sharing the pollinator garden work which I made for my show *next week* about the future of pollination for Manufactured Ecosystems. Using collaged linocut prints I built up this little garden with multiple native wildflowers, bees, moths, butterflies, beetles and a log, complete with some holes as homes for native bees. 🧵1/2

#printmaking #wildflowers #sciart #pollinators #nativeBees #linocut #mastoArt #manufacturedecosystems