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Emiliania coccolithophore

The imagery of life beneath the microscope lends itself so beautifully to mosaic form. Optical filters are remnants from the oceanographic industry and generated the color palette for this piece (Emiliana Coccolithophore). Aqua blues and greens feel right for such studies from the sea.

Artist statement — Ella Rhoades.
I went literal in my interpretation of Angelicque White’s photographs. The imagery of life beneath the microscope lends itself so beautifully to mosaic form. Optical filters are remnants from the oceanographic industry and generated the color palette for this piece (Emiliana Coccolithophore). Aqua blues and greens feel right for such studies from the sea.

Corvallis, Oregon 2012

For other works submitted to the Art of Plankton show, see Forms from the Sea.

Emiliania Coccolithophore — eukaryotic alga encased in calcium carbonate
Emiliania Coccolithophore — eukaryotic alga encased in calcium carbonate
Florisphaera profunda, a common coccolithophore
Florisphaera profunda, a common coccolithophore
Radiolaria
Radiolaria

By Nick Houtman

Nick Houtman is director of research communications at OSU and edits Terra, a world of research and creativity at Oregon State University. He has experience in weekly and daily print journalism and university science writing. A native Californian, he lived in Wisconsin and Maine before arriving in Corvallis in 2005.