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#quartz

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Ele Willoughby, PhD

Years ago, I was asked to make a print for a missing element in a gallery show of the Periodic Table Printmaking Project, which gathered prints by different artists for each element . This small linocut represents the chemical element Silicon, with its diamond cubic crystal structure shown in silver. Its symbol, atomic number and a couple of its forms are shown in lilac. Silicon is common in the Earth’s crust 🧵1/n

As described, this small linocut represents the chemical element Silicon, with its diamond cubic crystal structure shown in silver as a collection of balls. Its symbol, atomic number and a couple of its forms are printed on top of the silver layer in lilac. This shows quartz crystals in each corner. Four radiolarians circle the symbol for Silicon on the periodic table. The print is one of an edition of 14, each 6” x 6” (15.2 cm x 15.2 cm) printed on Japanese kozo paper.
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Ele Willoughby, PhD

The next prompt from #printerSolstice2425 is silicon and as a geophysicist I am always going to think of SiO2, quartz, one of my favourites and the first mineral I printed in this older #linocut. Quartz was the first mineral I learned to identify as a child. Rhapsodizing about the averageness of its physical properties might sound like a strange yet boring thing to celebrate but physicists love using the power of approximation. 🧵1/n

My mini linocut with quartz crystals and word “Quartz” in script in slate grey. Some of the facets of the crystals are printed onto collaged iridescent translucent paper so they have a pink to pale blue sheen.
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