Splat
Mike Kolitsky
$200.00
Dimensions: 11 x 10
Media: Two pieces of mixed media art demonstrate the before and after imaginative flight of a non-aerodynamic Platonic solid more suitable for plummeting than falling but this had not entered into the polyhedron mind set before leaping from the display case to sense for a short time the freedom of flight.
I dream of beta cells
Shelley Lowenstein
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Media: A BETA CELL-EBRATION www.shelleylowenstein.com My work is at the intersection of art and science. Fanciful, bold and optimistic. The work is accurate and based on state-of-the-art research. But it is not scientific illustration. I am fascinated by one life-sustaining cell – the remarkable BETA CELL. My goal is to make beta cells famous. For too long, they have been underappreciated and overlooked. SOME FUN FACTS: • We all have beta cells. Beta cells are essential for life. • Beta cells are among the hardest working cells in the human body. • We only have about the tip of your pinky’s worth of beta cells. Not a lot for so much work. • Beta cells make insulin. What’s remarkable is that they “know” exactly how much to make and when to release it….so that we have the energy we need for life. • On call, 24/7, a working beta cell produces 6,000 molecules of insulin each second. It emerges from the beta cell in powerful spurts and sparks. • Insulin gets so much credit… The beta cell is the brains of the operation.
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