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Did You Learn About the Depths From a Book?
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Ink on page removed from a 1920 Biology Textbook
Leya Tess 2019
Digitization of Documents Discarded
Because of Digitization
Drawing interventions from a summer spent working at the Bamfield Marine Sciences Centre, documenting, interviewing scientists, researchers, students, and community members.
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During this time, the station library was going through digitization and consolidation of their collection.
I managed to salvage a box of century-old scientific plates and maps from their discard pile.
COVID has brought attention to the mutable nature of data interpretation.
I don't believe that ecological systems are static, singular or western specific.
They are ever-changing like the rest of the living, breathing world.
These drawings are about this mutability.
Is this Epithelial?
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Ink on 1900 Invertebrate Morphilogical Illustration
Leya Tess 2020
What About the Space Inbetween?
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Ink & Graphite on 1903 Echinoderm Morphology Lithograph by Julius Bien
Leya Tess 2019
Making a Muddle of the Multispecies?
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Ink on page removed fro a 1920 Biology Textbook
Leya Tess 2019
Where did the water go?
Vicuna & Dracup, The Evolution of Climate Impact Studies on Hydrology and Water Resources in California
Ink on 1900 Map of San Francisco Bay and Tributary Streams
Leya Tess, 2020
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