Bacteriophage Ballet

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by Regina Valluzzi

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Dimensions

8.000 x 11.000 x 0.020 inches

Title

Bacteriophage Ballet

Artist

Regina Valluzzi

Medium

Drawing - Ink On Paper

Description

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Original is roughly 8.5 by 11 inches. Hand drawn archival ink on acid free paper.


Bacteriophage ballet takes the ideas that would go into a diagram about viruses invading a bacterium, and abstracts them to create a fantasy landscape of dancing phages.

Bacteriophages can be seen spinning in the viscous complex and perhaps partially ordered substances near the cell membrane. Other phages land and inject double helices of DNA. In the lower half of the drawing the hijacked cellular machinery manufactures an assembly line of little phages. Cellular structures and organelles are loosely represented, including the proteins and amphiphiles in the cellular membrane

Bacteriophage would make a good art gift or engaging office, lab, or home office art for someone educated or working in Virology, Microbiology, soft matter, or Biology in general. It might also appeal to people interested in bionanotechnology, DNA and Molecular Biology, and Viruses in general. Biology and Medicine and high resolution imaging are also good matches.

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April 9th, 2011