Mastodawn

Happy birthday to #astronomer Henrietta Swan Leavitt (1868-1921) who set the scale of our Universe. My portrait of Leavitt is printed in silvery lavender ink on Japanese kozo (or mulberry paper). Behind her is a line showing stellar luminosity (capital L with subscript sun-symbol, a circle with a dot) as a function of time (t). She is printed over constellations in gold (Cepheus, Cassiopeia, Draco, 🧵

#linocut #printmaking #WomenInSTEM #sciart #histstm #astronomy #constellation #mastoArt

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Trektor Jul 4

@minouette stop doing maori's bro

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Ele Willoughby, PhD Jul 4

@trrektor what?

This makes no sense to me. Also, not a bro.

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Trektor Jul 4

@minouette so those are not facial tattoos?

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Ele Willoughby, PhD

@trrektor Absolutely not.

If you’re going to go around chastising strangers for their artistic expression at least have the integrity to apologize when it’s made clear to you that you misunderstood and you’ve mistaken shading in a relief print for facial tattoos (which would have been a weird and irrelevant addition to my portrait of a American astronomer). The thing you’re criticizing never happened.