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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.

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Is this Epithelial?

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Ink on 1900 Invertebrate Morphilogical Illustration

Leya Tess 2020

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What About the Space Inbetween? 

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Ink & Graphite on 1903 Echinoderm Morphology Lithograph by Julius Bien
Leya Tess 2019

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Making a Muddle of the Multispecies?

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Ink on page removed fro a 1920 Biology Textbook
Leya Tess 2019

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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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