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Kindra Crick 🧩
@kindracrick.com
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Interdisciplinary artist + scientist
Creating artwork inspired by neuroscience. Currently exploring sleep and memory.

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Kindra Crick 🧩 @kindracrick.com · Dec 9
Hivemind: Thinking about making another sweet of prints that spring from this one. Looking for old star maps.

Where are good places to look? Is there an archive I should start with? I’m as interested in the artistic embellishments of the maps as I’m in how the night sky is represented.

#sciart 🔭
kindracrick.com Kindra Crick 🧩 @kindracrick.com · Dec 8
“While Sleeping”
Intaglio and spit-bite aquatint

Look closely. You may see neuron trees and neurotransmitter constellations. ✨

#artadventcalendar #sciart #printmaking #neurons #neuroart
Black and white intaglio spit-bite aquatint print of an intimate night sky looking over the ocean with neuron trees and a sky full of stars and neurotransmitter constellations. In an edition of 10. by Kindra Crick Neurotransmitter acetylcholine as a constellation rising in the night sky with serotonin diminished and setting on the horizon as in the stage of sleep called REM. REM sleep is when your #dreams are most vivid and the mind is highly active while your body is paralyzed; except your eyes, which are in rapid motion.
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The detail I can’t get out of my head was that Renee Nichole Good had stuffed animals in her glove box.

I’m guessing she had a booster seat and maybe some stale cheerios in the back seat.
January 8, 2026 at 7:23 PM
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Happy new year! My all sky camera imaged the sky every 15 seconds and this picture shows what happened in the sky in 2025. It shows the length of the night and day with the hourglass shape, the monthly lunar cycle with the diagonal bands, the elevation of the Sun at local noon, and lots of clouds.
The image shows the hourglass shape of the length of the day and night over the 365 days in 2025. Diagonal bands indicate when the Moon was up in the night sky.
January 1, 2026 at 8:54 PM
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Sigh, we could have continued to invest in solar power, instead we have this nonsense.
January 3, 2026 at 5:29 PM
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For those who enjoy how science and research may have influenced artists, this is a wonderful read.

#sciart 🧪 #abstractart #hilmaafklint
brittlundgren.bsky.social Britt Lundgren @brittlundgren.bsky.social · Apr 6
My article on the likely influence of the experiments of polymath Thomas Young on the early abstract art of Hilma af Klint is now published & open access at Leonardo / MIT Press 🎉 direct.mit.edu/leon/article...
January 3, 2026 at 3:58 PM
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Little hands made cookies and we dropped them off with a few neighbors yesterday.

I get such a kick of dropping off a box of mice.

🐁 🦉 🍪
Hoot owl cookies with cashew beaks and almond mouse cookies with red licorice tails on a plate. White box with six almond mouse cookies with red licorice tails on top of a few hoot owl cookies.
December 31, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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Something lovely for the weekend!

Beautiful blue glass beads from the late Bronze Age 💙

Ploughed up by a farmer in Denmark in 1885, analysis shows the beads were made in Mesopotamia, pointing to long-distance trade in luxury goods some 3,000 years ago.

📷 National Museum of Denmark

#Archaeology
The image shows fourty-four annular (ring-shaped) translucent turquoise blue glass beads strung on a modern circular thread and displayed against a black background. The glass beads were found in 1885 when a farmer ploughed up a cremation urn at Kongehøj in Denmark. The urn broke and was found to contain burnt bones, the 44 blue glass beads and two gold spiral rings. Recent analysis shows the beads were made in Mesopotamia (present-day Iraq), indicating far-reaching trade in luxury goods some 3,000 years ago.
December 27, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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'Nocturne Blue' is available now at Brassworks Gallery 👇👀

#printmaking #sciart #entomology #art #artgallery
December 27, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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I received this txt Tuesday morning and *just happened* to park in front the oddity shop Paxton Gate when running an unrelated errand.

I thought they just had sculls, taxidermy and crystals. I was delighted to discover that they had an entire section of the store devoted to carnivorous plants.
Text saying ‘I want one of these’ To a photo of a healthy pitcher plant with a caption“The sarracenias seem to be quite happy with all the rain we've been getting, much happier than I am about it! ;-) I think I may need to get them in a larger container as they go into their third year, it's getting a bit crowded!” Glass pot with a crimson pitcher plant. Sp. Sarracenia leucophylla
December 25, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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This hung as part of a series of human #neuron portraits at the WSU Dengerink Gallery for the exhibit ‘Memory: Cerebral Entanglement’

#sciart #artinstallation
Two WSU neuroscience undergraduates talking in front of a wall with eight overlapping paintings on blue dyed kozo paper with portraits of a human neuron in black ink and underneath an installation of large hanging neurons. #neuroart
December 24, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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So, what happened on Twitter? They now allow people to alter people’s photos and images?
December 25, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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Part of a series painting a few of the 86 billion #neurons which help generate our every sensation & thought.

Used the @alleninstitute.bsky.social 🧠Atlas Database celltypes.brain-map.org for references.

Untangled Series
India ink, colored pencil on hand dyed kozo paper

#SciArt #ArtAdventCalendar
Blue hand dyed kozo paper with a large portrait of a human neuron in black and metallic ink. 37” x 25” by Kindra Crick #art #neuroart
December 24, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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I blew off social media lately, and for that I apologize. But I can’t let #ArtAdventCalendar pass without posting at least ONCE! So here’s something different, a photo of a lone surfer, three weeks ago during the King Tides at Cannon Beach #Oregon, just two days before all the flooding hit.
A lone surfer braves the crazy waves during king tide on 12/6/25, seen from Ecola State Park north of Cannon Beach, on the northern Oregon coast. The scene is moody and mostly monotones with a pearl-gray cloudy sky, dark waves and silvery reflections crossing horizontally across the photo. An arch rock thrusts upwards in the upper left corner of the photo, with misty spray obscuring the arch. The weather is windy and cold, and this person is clearly insane, but at least he has a full wetsuit on.
December 24, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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For #ArtAdventCalendar Day 24, a photo taken 13 years ago today, the Bow River in the Rocky Mountains near the Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel, in Banff National Park, Alberta.

Merry Christmas Eve, everyone!
Photo of a river winding through snow covered trees, Rocky Mountains in the background. Cloudy sky.
December 24, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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#ArtAdventCalendar final day! My muse, Siam smanit (the Stawamus Chief)
Acrylic painting of a mountain landscape. A granite monolith takes up the mid ground against an ocean and blue sky with clouds. It is painted on two canvases as a diptych
December 24, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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What if we kissed under the neuron?
kindracrick.com Kindra Crick 🧩 @kindracrick.com · 17d
This hung as part of a series of human #neuron portraits at the WSU Dengerink Gallery for the exhibit ‘Memory: Cerebral Entanglement’

#sciart #artinstallation
Two WSU neuroscience undergraduates talking in front of a wall with eight overlapping paintings on blue dyed kozo paper with portraits of a human neuron in black ink and underneath an installation of large hanging neurons. #neuroart
December 24, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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Part of a series painting a few of the 86 billion #neurons which help generate our every sensation & thought.

Used the @alleninstitute.bsky.social 🧠Atlas Database celltypes.brain-map.org for references.

Untangled Series
India ink, colored pencil on hand dyed kozo paper

#SciArt #ArtAdventCalendar
Blue hand dyed kozo paper with a large portrait of a human neuron in black and metallic ink. 37” x 25” by Kindra Crick #art #neuroart
December 24, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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‘Infectious Ideas’
hand-inked intaglio print
2017

“What is the most resilient parasite? Bacteria? A virus? An intestinal worm?

An idea.

Resilient... highly contagious. Once an idea has taken hold of the brain it's almost impossible to eradicate." - Inception

Day 23 #artadventcalendar
#sciart
Intaglio print of a head of a line drawn woman with colorful bacteria and viruses flowing out. The woman has one blue eye and one green eyebrow. There are two gold headed snakes reaching from tendrils emerging from her head. Originally a contemplation on memetics and the infectious nature of ideas. by Kindra Crick (2017) #art #printmaking
December 23, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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Day 23
Another fusing workshop piece that I made at a Cambridge Glass Studio demo by Michell Mativi a prize winner of the Stevens Architectural Glass Competition in 2015, awarded by The Worshipful Company of Glaziers and Glass Painters.
#ArtAdventCalendar
#StainedGlass #Optics
#GlassFusing
A square panel of glass in stripey blue and white where fusing has created a lens like circular pattern pushing the straight lines into curves. A blue sky with wispy clouds can be seen in the background.
December 23, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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Yep, another owl for Day 23 #ArtAdventCalendar
I was standing outside last night looking at the clear bright stars and it reminded me of this client work from a couple years ago. #NatureArt #WildlifeArt #birds #yule
Illustration of an owl flying through dark hemlock branches and bright stars
December 23, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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‘Infectious Ideas’
hand-inked intaglio print
2017

“What is the most resilient parasite? Bacteria? A virus? An intestinal worm?

An idea.

Resilient... highly contagious. Once an idea has taken hold of the brain it's almost impossible to eradicate." - Inception

Day 23 #artadventcalendar
#sciart
Intaglio print of a head of a line drawn woman with colorful bacteria and viruses flowing out. The woman has one blue eye and one green eyebrow. There are two gold headed snakes reaching from tendrils emerging from her head. Originally a contemplation on memetics and the infectious nature of ideas. by Kindra Crick (2017) #art #printmaking
December 23, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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‘Try to Love the Questions’
block print, gold ink and graphite on an old geological map
18” x 14.5”

One of my anatomical valentines for day 22 #ArtAdventCalendar
#sciart #printmaking #map #mixedmedia #art
Geological map of mineral deposits with various tones of red and pink, with a block print of an anatomical valentine in deep maroon. The map itself gives an illusion of lungs behind the bold heart surrounded by gold pigment. There are annotations in graphite. by Kindra Crick
December 22, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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"Stitch (darn)", oil/acrylic/thread/sewing needle on paper, 10 1/2 x 15", 2025- $450(Cdn) #art
A page from a world atlas index with 6 columns of place names titled Part Two- World Index on which there is a realistic painting of a human heart over a slash of bright red paint. There is a tear across the paper from the lower right to the center of the heart that is sewn shut with red thread. The sewing needle dangles from the thread. A close up of the heart & stitching.
December 20, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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Despite living in #Portland for a looong time, I’ve never explored its amazing food carts. Next year I’m going to go to more of them across the city.

What inspired this.
Sorbu Paninoteca – A Tuscan-inspired food truck at 5011 NE 42nd

It’s not listed on Google maps, but it’s sandwiches are 👌💥
December 22, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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17. Contrasting wood cockroach

There's so many species of blattodeans (cockroaches & termites,) with v few being considered pests by humans. Some are incredibly colourful, some are metallic & shiny like jewel-beetles, others have bold patterns. They're very underrated.

#SciArt
#ArtAdventCalendar
A colour pencil and watercolour drawing of a contrasting wood cockroach, Eushelfordia pica. It's got a teardrop shaped body, black with bold, blocky patches of white and orange. It has a small head with antennas that look like beads on wires. Delightful.
December 21, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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$200 left in our fundraiser! That’s one night in a hotel, or six rides to/from airports. Please help us meet more lawmakers in the New Year. Thank you! 👉 savestandardtime.com/donate/ 🎁
Bar chart of total funds raised for 2026. Goal is $14,800. Current amount is $14,800.
December 22, 2025 at 4:08 PM