This work is a Venn diagram designed to illustrate the biology
and sociology of abortion, both induced and spontaneous, in
the United States. As detailed below, the central “embryonic” oval in the diagram contains sub-categorizations of all pregnancies in the US in recent years. Spontaneous abortions, AKA miscarriages, are common.

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This old saying and special year were made for each other.

The old saying “Hindsight is 20-20” of course refers to the “20-20 vision” we have when looking back in time. The year 2020 will indeed be one that many will want to view in hindsight, if only to know that it’s over and they survived.

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Dare to Bare your Healthcare to the COVID Scare

Since the dawn of the COVID-19 pandemic, there’s been talk in the media about models used to predict the course of the contagion. A lot of variables go into these formulae, and the equations morph and evolve as circumstances change and we learn more about the coronavirus causing COVID-19. The models are complex, sophisticated, and of course mathematical, but in a scientific sense, they are also beautiful.

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How Many More Can We Afford to Lose?

Healthcare systems worldwide were ill-prepared to cope with the particularly infectious and pathogenic coronavirus that causes COVID-19. As a result, the disease killed many healthcare workers, and continues to in mid-2020, in part due to lack of adequate personal protective equipment and protocols. This work honors the doctors, nurses, and other healthcare workers who “ran towards gunfire”, and were then cut down, in humanity’s fight against COVID-19.

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An example of how to create data driven art.

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The science behind the flavor

Cheese is delightful! But is there more to it than just milk gone bad? What are some of the key variables in the making of cheese? How, why, and when do they change during the process? See this artful presentation for quantitative answers.

This symbolic data-driven work illustrates divisions Donald Trump incited while he was President of the United States. The work fails because it is far from complete.

Conflicts are shown as symbols of the “trumped-up” opponents mirrored on the left vs. right side. (Note: the right and left sides are not politically right and left.) The discordant red line down the middle represents the intensity of these conflicts.

In your mind’s eye, fold the work in half down the midline. Opposing forces are now forced together.

For a furthers details on the divisions illustrated, see here.

A Veritable Archive of One Student’s College Experience

Graduation announcements traditionally consist of fancy embossed boredom. More recently, photos enliven some invites, but the only real info continues to be “Bob’s Auditorium on June whatever”. What about an announcement that, in the same space, succinctly yet comprehensively documents a student’s entire college experience? And has some fun in the process??

Life stories told by a single variable

This simple videnda depicts the vitality of 8 different people across their life span. The top is maximum vitality, the bottom death. Age at death ranges from 2 to 89 years, and is represented by color at the end of individual “life lines”. Spectral distance from blue indicates age. The exception is the 89-year old woman who came “full circle” back to violet. The lines tell 8 very different life stories. What happened to these people during their lives, and what ended them?

For a full discussion of these individuals’ lives, read the full artist’s statement here.

Everyone hates that billowing, sticky, nasty shower curtain!

This Videnda depicts a typical “first-world problem” of a shower curtain repeatedly touching someone during their shower. The curtain becomes the “unwanted dance partner”. Time during the shower proceeds from left to right. Vertically-oriented grayscale represents distance of the curtain from the skin of the subject, a young woman, with white being distant and black very close. (The vertical orientation makes the work turn out to resemble a curtain of sorts.) Bright clashing colors represent actual shower curtain-skin contact. The curved line represents the subject’s mood, which declines from happy (green) to very angry (purple) during the shower.

Mark height on a doorframe? Pah!!

We moved a lot back then, so our family kept charts for every kid to document their anthropometric, athletic, and cognitive development. We collected the data yearly on their birthday. This work depicts those and other data for Kendra’s first decade of life.