40″ x 25,6 ” Cotton, painted with oil color, machine-quilted
My daughter is a biochemist. Sometimes, when she is at home, data analyses are laying around. I was surprised about the wonderful “quilting patterns”. The first image which I saw showed 3T3-L1 cells. Those are murine fibroblasts, i.e. preliminary cells derived from a mouse. With the addition of different chemicals, it is possible to develop them into adipocyte-like cells. In science, this is a nice model system to study adipose tissue. In this picture that I saw, the lipid droplets were stained with a chemical called Oilred, so everything you see in red is fat, stored in the cell.
I could talk for hours about this topic or you could extent this conversation onto the topic of obesity in the world. Did you know that we have two billion obese people versus two billion people starving in this world?
But here, I just want to let the art of the quilt sink in.
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Your quilting really brings this alive! Wonderful.
Amazing print work, and I have a lot of study to do with this post, Doerte-Ina … While all of the terms/definitions are there for me to sink into reading about – the artwork is exciting and a dynamic play on colour, texture, shape and stitch!
Hey, I learned something! Plus I really like the different intensities and shades of red you used.
Such beautiful little mousie fat cells! The texture is wonderful.
I amazing educational teaching of cells and your quilt is beautiful.