A delightfully trippy artistic interpretation of the biosphere concept

In 2007 , San Francisco artistShoshanah Dubiner – who had spent the precede 40 years designing costumes in Italy , working as a graphic designer in Los Angeles , and teaching handcraft at the Waldorf schooltime ( among other things ) – enrolled in a university course of study on cell biology . Her experience in the classroom inspired a ridiculously awesome serial found on the world see through the microscope .

feature here is a piece called “ The Deep . ” Dubiner name the pieceon her web log :

My painting , “ The Deep , ” render the visual modality of the great Russian scientistVladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky(1863 - 1945 ) . A minerologist , geochemisty , and founder of the biosphere concept , Vernadsky estimate the amount of cosmic energy that the biosphere absorb through solar vigour being trapped by chlorophyll of green algae . Vernadsky ultimately saw living matter as the majuscule of all geological forces . In this picture , the sun ’s Energy Department , record as photons , is metamorphose by photosynthesizing cerise and green bacterium , algae , and plants into a “ green fire , ” shown here as fire . According to Vernadsky , the expansion of the “ dark-green flaming , ” fed by the sun , blackmail other beingness , like animal , to become more complex and more dispersed , i.e. to evolve into the millions of species of wight who have inhabit and still inhabit our planet .

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