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THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE
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Roman Fugu
(DNA edition) 15" x 16" on Hiromi's handmade Eichizen paper Twelve colors, edition 25 ...The 1997 print reissued as Fugu rubripes, with SPOTS! |
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Sam Aparicio, the genome scientist who contacted me about illustrating his group's article on the decoding of Fugu DNA, asked me if my image was indeed Fugu rubripes. I checked, and found my source to be a different species, one with stripes instead of spots. I told him I could adjust the pattern by cutting another block, and decided to print a new edition, with spots, on handmade Japanese paper. The genome scientists admired the way the Roman mosaic border twists in a helix like DNA. |
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