{"id":20596,"date":"2013-02-21T20:13:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-21T20:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2013\/02\/21\/smithsonian-magazine-lethal-viruses-sculptures\/"},"modified":"2017-07-01T03:46:31","modified_gmt":"2017-07-01T03:46:31","slug":"smithsonian-magazine-lethal-viruses-sculptures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2013\/02\/21\/smithsonian-magazine-lethal-viruses-sculptures\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-20596 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2013\/02\/21\/smithsonian-magazine-lethal-viruses-sculptures\/e-coli-by-luke-jerram\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/tumblr_mhx86ptgBh1r7u6l5o1_1280-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-20597\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/tumblr_mhx86ptgBh1r7u6l5o1_1280-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/tumblr_mhx86ptgBh1r7u6l5o1_1280-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-20597'>\n\t\t\t\tE. coli, by Luke Jerram.\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2013\/02\/21\/smithsonian-magazine-lethal-viruses-sculptures\/hiv-series-2-by-luke-jerram\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/tumblr_mhx86ptgBh1r7u6l5o2_1280-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-20598\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/tumblr_mhx86ptgBh1r7u6l5o2_1280-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/tumblr_mhx86ptgBh1r7u6l5o2_1280-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-20598'>\n\t\t\t\tHIV (series 2), by Luke Jerram.\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2013\/02\/21\/smithsonian-magazine-lethal-viruses-sculptures\/malaria-by-luke-jerram\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/tumblr_mhx86ptgBh1r7u6l5o3_1280-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-20599\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/tumblr_mhx86ptgBh1r7u6l5o3_1280-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/tumblr_mhx86ptgBh1r7u6l5o3_1280-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-20599'>\n\t\t\t\tMalaria, by Luke Jerram.\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/retina.smithsonianmag.com\/post\/42607775919\/smithsonian-magazine-lethal-viruses-sculptures\">smithsonianmag<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.smithsonianmag.com\/artscience\/2013\/02\/the-unsettling-beauty-of-lethal-viruses\/?utm_source=tumblr.com&amp;utm_medium=socialmedia&amp;utm_campaign=20130208&amp;utm_content=collageartsscienceslethalviruses\" title=\"Unsettling Beauty of Lethal Viruses\"><strong>The Unsettling Beauty of Lethal Viruses<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To create a body of work he calls \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lukejerram.com\/glass\/\" title=\"Glass Microbiology\">Glass Microbiology<\/a>,\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lukejerram.com\/\" title=\"Luke Jerram\">[Luke] Jerram<\/a> has enlisted the help of virologist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bristol.ac.uk\/cellmolmed\/infect-immune\/davidson.html\" title=\"Andrew Davidson\">Andrew Davidson<\/a> from the University of Bristol and the expertise of professional glassblowers Kim George, Brian George and Norman Veitch. Together, the cross-disciplinary team brings hazardous pathogens, such as the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flu.gov\/about_the_flu\/h1n1\/index.html\" title=\"H1N1 virus\">H1N1 virus<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/aids.gov\/hiv-aids-basics\/hiv-aids-101\/what-is-hiv-aids\/\" title=\"HIV\">HIV<\/a>, to light in translucent glass forms.<\/p>\n<p>The artist \u00a0insists that his sculptures be colorless, in contrast to the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.smithsonianmag.com\/artscience\/2012\/09\/science-images-that-border-on-art\/\" title=\"Images\">images<\/a> scientists sometimes disseminate that are enhanced with bright hues.\u00a0\u201cViruses have no color as they are smaller than the wavelength of light,\u201d says Jerram, in an email. \u201cSo the artworks are created as alternative representations of viruses to the artificially colored imagery we receive through the media.\u201d Jerram and Davidson create sketches, which they then take to the glassblowers, to see whether the intricate structures of the diseases can be replicated in glass, at approximately one million times their original size. &#8211; <em>Continue reading at<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.smithsonianmag.com\/artscience\/2013\/02\/the-unsettling-beauty-of-lethal-viruses\/?utm_source=tumblr.com&amp;utm_medium=socialmedia&amp;utm_campaign=20130208&amp;utm_content=collageartsscienceslethalviruses\" title=\"Smithsonian magazine\">Smithsonian.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>smithsonianmag: The Unsettling Beauty of Lethal Viruses To create a body of work he calls \u201cGlass Microbiology,\u201d [Luke] Jerram has enlisted the help of virologist Andrew Davidson from the University of Bristol and the expertise of professional glassblowers Kim George, Brian George and Norman Veitch. Together, the cross-disciplinary team brings hazardous pathogens, such as the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2013\/02\/21\/smithsonian-magazine-lethal-viruses-sculptures\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20596"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20600,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20596\/revisions\/20600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}