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Kindra Crick 🧩
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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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Portland friends, do not miss “A Larger Reality: Ursula K. Le Guin” up at Oregon Contemporary.

Inspiring details throughout.

Portland writer Le Guin would draw maps of the worlds she created before starting a novel.

Now compelled to read ‘The Lathe of Heaven’ where a man’s dreams alters reality
An instillation with a psychiatrist office with The Augmentor from Ursula Le Guin’s novel ‘The Lathe of Heaven’ The Augmenter is a reclining chair with a cap to read and alter dreams. There are three tv screens on the wall. Hand drawn map on light brown paper Case displaying an Ursula Le Guin book, a commemorative stamp and National Book award. The words “We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art—the art of words." are written on a paper taken from her acceptance speech. Photo of the drawing of ‘The Labyrinth of the Tombs of Atuan’
January 16, 2026 at 5:05 PM
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Pro tip: If you’re an introvert you can call after hours and leave a voicemail.
😁
kindracrick.com Kindra Crick 🧩 @kindracrick.com · 2d
You want to stop funding ICE, the Senate can do that. Government funding runs out on *January 30th* This is a moment to hold
them accountable.

Currently there are just calls to require agents to display IDs and unmask.

I don’t think ICE should get any money until they stop terrorizing people.
If you are feeling overwhelmed right now and want to do something. The Senate is deciding whether to fund ICE through the next appropriations bill. Government funding runs out on *January 30th*, and this is a moment to hold them accountable. Please take two minutes today to call both of your U.S. Senators and ask them to vote NO on any bill that includes ICE funding. Call the U.S. Capitol switchboard: (202) 224-3121 Ask to be connected to your Senator's office. At minimum you can say ( see below for more): "I am a constituent from calling to urge the Senator to oppose any appropriations bill that funds ICE. I will be paying attention to this vote." Phone calls are counted. Bonus points to folks with Republican Senators. For voicemail: Please leave your full street address to ensure your call is tallied. #noice
January 16, 2026 at 6:03 AM
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Pro tip: If you’re an introvert you can call after hours and leave a voicemail.
😁
kindracrick.com Kindra Crick 🧩 @kindracrick.com · 2d
You want to stop funding ICE, the Senate can do that. Government funding runs out on *January 30th* This is a moment to hold
them accountable.

Currently there are just calls to require agents to display IDs and unmask.

I don’t think ICE should get any money until they stop terrorizing people.
If you are feeling overwhelmed right now and want to do something. The Senate is deciding whether to fund ICE through the next appropriations bill. Government funding runs out on *January 30th*, and this is a moment to hold them accountable. Please take two minutes today to call both of your U.S. Senators and ask them to vote NO on any bill that includes ICE funding. Call the U.S. Capitol switchboard: (202) 224-3121 Ask to be connected to your Senator's office. At minimum you can say ( see below for more): "I am a constituent from calling to urge the Senator to oppose any appropriations bill that funds ICE. I will be paying attention to this vote." Phone calls are counted. Bonus points to folks with Republican Senators. For voicemail: Please leave your full street address to ensure your call is tallied. #noice
January 16, 2026 at 6:03 AM
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#NatureIsArt

Opening coral charm peony - June 2025

#Phonetography
#JanuArty = #Half #flowers #bloomscrolling #onlybeautifulthings #revealinglayers #peeky
Close-up of a coral charm variety of peony halfway open. Layers of petals ranging from striated pale pink inside to deep coral on the outside ones. Half the center is vizible showing a dense array of long delicate golden stamens.
January 16, 2026 at 2:08 AM
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At Oregon Contemporary this Saturday, 1/17, gather under the oak tree as Ursula K. Le Guin’s daughters, daughter-in-law, and one of her granddaughters read a selection of her children’s books.

The event is free to attend and open to all! Storytime begins at noon.

Photo by Mario Gallucci Studio.
An oak tree shaped of panels of wood, with shelves in the trunk that hold Ursula K. Le Guin's works for visitors to read, is part of the exhibition Ursula K. Le Guin: A Larger Reality at Oregon Contemporary in Portland, Oregon. Photo by Mario Gallucci Studio.
January 15, 2026 at 7:22 PM
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You want to stop funding ICE, the Senate can do that. Government funding runs out on *January 30th* This is a moment to hold
them accountable.

Currently there are just calls to require agents to display IDs and unmask.

I don’t think ICE should get any money until they stop terrorizing people.
If you are feeling overwhelmed right now and want to do something. The Senate is deciding whether to fund ICE through the next appropriations bill. Government funding runs out on *January 30th*, and this is a moment to hold them accountable. Please take two minutes today to call both of your U.S. Senators and ask them to vote NO on any bill that includes ICE funding. Call the U.S. Capitol switchboard: (202) 224-3121 Ask to be connected to your Senator's office. At minimum you can say ( see below for more): "I am a constituent from calling to urge the Senator to oppose any appropriations bill that funds ICE. I will be paying attention to this vote." Phone calls are counted. Bonus points to folks with Republican Senators. For voicemail: Please leave your full street address to ensure your call is tallied. #noice
January 15, 2026 at 7:27 PM
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"I will send a fully armed battalion to remind you of my love!"
- Hamilton lyrics

Saw this on a yard sign and it's been looping in my head ever since.
katiemckissick.bsky.social Katie McKissick @katiemckissick.bsky.social · 5d
The murdering will continue until morale improves.
January 12, 2026 at 12:38 AM
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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 · 24d
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