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Interdisciplinary Artist + Scientist Artwork inspired by neuroscience - driven by curiosity & ☕️ 🦋 Nature explorer & 🍄‍🟫 mushroom forager • linktr.ee/k_crick

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Kindra Crick 🧩 @kindracrick.com · Feb 2

Nocturne
block print, interference pigment, graphite and ink

#printmaking #mixedmedia #sciart #entomology

Block print of an Emperor Moth in iridescent blue on black paper. There are topographic lines in graphite radiating away from an absent moon with pinpoints of white ink in a star-like pattern.

by Kindra Crick
#artist #art

Kindra Crick 🧩 @kindracrick.com · 6d

My brother in Seattle just sent me a cute video of some blow up rainbow chickens that said ‘The cavalry has arrived in Portland’

I sent him back news that the emergency World Naked Bike Riders have been summoned because, if nothing else, Portland is going up the weird factor.

#keepkportlandweird

Kindra Crick 🧩 @kindracrick.com · 7d

A wonderful assortment of mushrooms popped up over this sunny weekend. We found Kings, Chanterelles and a Cauliflower which we made into a wonderful soup.

As we are in Portland, we had to battle our way past gleeful cyclists to the Whole Foods to pick up the broccoli sprouts.

#fungifriends 🍄‍🟫

Hiker holding a king bolete

A bowl of cream of chanterelle soup with broccoli sprouts and a sliced king bolete button on top. It was so good!

King Bolete mushroom ( sp. Boletus edulus) popped up from the duff.

Hand holding a Cauliflower mushroom (sp. Sparassis crispa)

Kindra Crick 🧩 @kindracrick.com · 8d

I’ve been waiting on optogenetics… seems long overdue?

Kindra Crick 🧩 @kindracrick.com · 8d

Thank you, Lar 😊

Kindra Crick 🧩 @kindracrick.com · 8d

Thank you! 😊

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Lia Pas @liapas.bsky.social · 8d

#SciArtSeptember Day 30: dream
Dreaming takes place in our brain. Here's a detail from my #SciArt #embroidery the wandering ghost (2024) of the brain and facial nerves.

An embroidery of a head and neck stitched in blue thread on green cloth. The brain is stitched in back stitch and the vagus nerves in the neck are stitched in chain stitch in perlé thread. The facial nerves are stitched in single strand chain stitch and back stitch. A thin dark purple line entwines the nerve on the forehead and some curved light green lines emanate from the eye.

Kindra Crick 🧩 @kindracrick.com · 8d

Thank you! Loved painting them.

Kindra Crick 🧩 @kindracrick.com · 8d

#sciartseptember prompt: Dream

During REM your brainwaves on an EEG look similar to when you are awake but your body is paralyzed! This state sometimes weaves strange yet meaningful connections.

‘Vernal Dreams’ draws on imagery from a sleep diary & uses sleep data to explore our nocturnal world.

Upside-down woman sleeping with a hair full of neurons, three snakes, a moth and chrysalis, and elaborate swirling patterns against a night sky filled with stars including neurotransmitter constellations. A week’s worth of hypnograms from the week surrounding March 27 in shades of blue ( sleep staging data) border the figure.

March 27, 2025 notes from my sleep diary:

"Dreams of snakes. The yellow snake and a garter snake were most vivid. They seemed unbothered by me watching them"

by Kindra Crick

#art #artist #mixedmedia

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Kindra Crick 🧩 @kindracrick.com · 12d

There’s a funny story about the spot where I found this bear’s head mushroom.

Storytime 🧵…

#fungifriday 🍄‍🟫

Gloved hand holding a large white shaggy mushroom. My first time finding a Bear’s head mushroom (Sp. Hericium abietis)

Kindra Crick 🧩 @kindracrick.com · 12d

I went back to check this spot again. Still no boletes. No one else in the woods.

I did find this lovely Bear’s head mushroom growing off a fallen conifer.

I don’t know about other mushroom foragers, but I enjoy nicknaming good spots.

This one we now refer to as the ‘bare man spot.’

Kindra Crick 🧩 @kindracrick.com · 12d

This was not a choice between a man and a bear.

It was just a bare man in the woods.

Who knew there was a third option?!

Kindra Crick 🧩 @kindracrick.com · 12d

Some people apparently take forest bathing quite literally.

Kindra Crick 🧩 @kindracrick.com · 12d

After checking out other parts of the woods for boletes, I eventually got back to my car.

Making my way to the highway, I saw the SUV and a now fully dressed man in a green tee shirt who gave me a friendly wave as I drove past. 👋

Kindra Crick 🧩 @kindracrick.com · 12d

I quickly b-lined it into the brush to circumvent the bare man on the direct path back to my car.

Kindra Crick 🧩 @kindracrick.com · 12d

I started making my way back to my car and saw that about 30 ft from where the SUV was parked there was a naked guy in the woods.

I didn’t stop to stare, but it seemed like maybe he was washing himself.

Kindra Crick 🧩 @kindracrick.com · 12d

Although it had just rained, there were only a few shrimp mushrooms and some bright orange woolie chanterelles.

No boletes. 🍄‍🟫😢

Kindra Crick 🧩 @kindracrick.com · 12d

So, I drove a few hundred yards further and parked at the trailhead. I quickly entered the woods and glimpsed a man near the SUV but hurried along a herd path to a mossy spot that had king boletes this week last year.

Kindra Crick 🧩 @kindracrick.com · 12d

So a first for me while mushroom hunting: happening upon a naked guy in the forest.

On my way back from delivering artwork, I realized I’d be passing a location where I’d found boletes last year. When I got off the highway I saw a white suv parked where I typically would enter the woods.

Kindra Crick 🧩 @kindracrick.com · 12d

There’s a funny story about the spot where I found this bear’s head mushroom.

Storytime 🧵…

#fungifriday 🍄‍🟫

Gloved hand holding a large white shaggy mushroom. My first time finding a Bear’s head mushroom (Sp. Hericium abietis)

Kindra Crick 🧩 @kindracrick.com · 13d

The collector, a self-described naturalist, loved learning that a grouping of moths is called an eclipse, which I used in the naming of the piece.

Kindra Crick 🧩 @kindracrick.com · 13d

Was thrilled this piece found a home with during ‘The Brain - is wider than the Sky’ exhibit at Gallery 114.

“The Dark Whispers, Eclipsing Dreams”
mixed media and cold wax on panel, 24” x 30

#mixedmedia #sciart #sleep

Kindra Crick 🧩 @kindracrick.com · Aug 6

Sometimes before dawn, does your mind awaken and refuse to settle?

Insomnia feels like restless moths swarming, with thoughts drawn endlessly to the flickering light of my sleepless mind.

The Darkness Whispers, Eclipsing Dreams
24 x 30”

#mixedmedia #sciart #sleep #insomnia #hypnogram

An upside-down woman with closed eyes and moths circling her flowing hair. A hypnogram of a week’s worth of sleep data frames the figure. Each vertical band represents a night of sleep, starting at 9 p.m. White indicates wakefulness, pale blue is REM, soft blue is light sleep, and deep navy marks deep sleep. These bands reveal the nightly cycles through dreams, deep restorative sleep, and bouts of wakefulness.

Mixed-media and cold wax on panel

#art #hypnogram

Kindra Crick 🧩 @kindracrick.com · 17d

Yes, coffee first!

Hope the fish are biting this morning 😊

Kindra Crick 🧩 @kindracrick.com · 17d

Still drizzling here in PDX. I’m off to Mt. Hood this morning, crossing my fingers that the rain last weekend tickled some mycelium. Looking for some King Boletes…

You off fishing?

Kindra Crick 🧩 @kindracrick.com · 18d

I now think about if AI could ever have qualia?

It could know everything about red, but could it ever ‘experience’ red in a similar way our minds do?

Not just wavelengths stimulating cones. We experience ‘red’ in our imagination, with optical illusions, and as an after effect of staring at green

Kindra Crick 🧩 @kindracrick.com · 18d

Last year was ridiculous for lobsters and chanterelles. My normal spot this year is way too dry.

Ugh, sorry to hear your truck troubles prevented you from going out. 🤞 No trouble this year.