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Solanaceae is the name of the nightshade family, to which the tomato belongs. The scientific species name for tomatoes, lycopersicum, means "wolf peach", and comes from German werewolf myths. These legends said that deadly nightshade was used by witches and sorcerers in potions to transform themselves into werewolves, so the tomato's similar, but much larger, fruit was called the "wolf peach" when it arrived in Europe in the 1500s.
I made this today in my drawing and composition class. We collected garbage and made scans and next we're drawing our scans.
Using washing up liquid to create bubbles in a glass dish on top of the light sensitive paper. Light shone from above on 9 sec timer.
Challenging traditional representation of ordinary/mundane to look alien here - like a satellite image.
This photgram was done by Anna Atkins who was the first woman photgrapher. This was from her book of works, Photographs of British Algae, specifically this print was named Cyanotype Impressions.
Rather than exposing through a negative onto the photography paper I splashed water over the unexposed paper and placed my hand over the paper under the enlarger and exposed the paper.
I developed as normal and this was the result.
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Date: Thursday 05 July 2012
Location: London
Subject: Transparency of an electron microscope image, showing a freeze fracture within the basal ganglia.