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Visual Wordsmithing
Using text as my palette, I create digital images through what I call "visual wordsmithing."
See my blog post for more information about this process.
Tamias striatus (Eastern chipmunk)
Kingdom: Animalia - capable of movement, external food
Phylum: Chordata - notochords, vestigial slits, post-anal tail
Class: Mammalia - fur, mammary glands
Order: Rodentia - two pairs of continuously growing incisors
Family: Sciuridae from Greek for "shade" and "tail"
Genus: Tamias from Greek for "housekeeper" or "treasurer"- buries seeds
Species: striatus - 4 stripes on back
Phylum: Chordata - notochords, vestigial slits, post-anal tail
Class: Mammalia - fur, mammary glands
Order: Rodentia - two pairs of continuously growing incisors
Family: Sciuridae from Greek for "shade" and "tail"
Genus: Tamias from Greek for "housekeeper" or "treasurer"- buries seeds
Species: striatus - 4 stripes on back
Danaus plexippus (monarch butterfly)
Kingdom: Animalia - capable of movement, external food
Phylum: Arthropoda - exoskeleton, jointed appendages
Class: Insecta - 6 legs, antennae
Order: Lepidoptera - two pairs of triangular wings, proboscis
Family: Nymphalidae - reduced front legs, clubbed antennae
Genus: Danaus - white spots on wings, brush-like feet
Species: Plexippus - named for Greek prince Plexippus
Phylum: Arthropoda - exoskeleton, jointed appendages
Class: Insecta - 6 legs, antennae
Order: Lepidoptera - two pairs of triangular wings, proboscis
Family: Nymphalidae - reduced front legs, clubbed antennae
Genus: Danaus - white spots on wings, brush-like feet
Species: Plexippus - named for Greek prince Plexippus
Homo sapien (human)
Kingdom: Animalia - capable of movement, external food
Phylum: Chordata - notochords, vestigial slits, post-anal tail
Class: Mammalia - fur, mammary glands
Order: Primate - overlapping visual fields, opposable thumbs
Family: Hominidae - walks on two feet, big brains
Genus: Homo - from original fifteen species in this genus, only one remains
Species: sapien - uses tools
Phylum: Chordata - notochords, vestigial slits, post-anal tail
Class: Mammalia - fur, mammary glands
Order: Primate - overlapping visual fields, opposable thumbs
Family: Hominidae - walks on two feet, big brains
Genus: Homo - from original fifteen species in this genus, only one remains
Species: sapien - uses tools
Cyanocitta cristata (blue jay)
Kingdom: Animalia - capable of movement, external food
Phylum: Chordata - notochords, vestigial slits, post-anal tail
Class: Aves - two feet, wings
Order: Passeriformes - complex song, anisodactyl feet (three toes forward, one toe backward)
Family: Passerellidae - likes to eat seeds, finch-like beak
Genus: Cyanocitta - chatters, plumage includes blue
Species: cristata - "crested"
Phylum: Chordata - notochords, vestigial slits, post-anal tail
Class: Aves - two feet, wings
Order: Passeriformes - complex song, anisodactyl feet (three toes forward, one toe backward)
Family: Passerellidae - likes to eat seeds, finch-like beak
Genus: Cyanocitta - chatters, plumage includes blue
Species: cristata - "crested"
Coprinopsis atramentaria (inky cap mushroom)
Kingdom: Fungi - external food, from Greek for "sponge" Division: Basidiomycota - structures include hydra and spores on a basidium (microscopic spore-producing cell shaped like a little "pedestal") Class: Agaricomycetes - mushroom shape, spores Order: Agaricales - gills, spores Family: Psathyrellaceae - fragile fruiting bodies, dark spores Genus: Coprinopsis: consumes dung Species: atramentaria - from Greek for "ink"
Actias luna (luna moth)
Kingdom: Animalia - capable of movement, external food
Phylum: Arthropoda - exoskeleton, jointed appendages
Class: Insecta - 6 legs, antennae
Order: Lepidoptera - two pairs of triangular wings, proboscis
Family: Saturnidae - eyespots, feathery antennae
Genus: Actias - long hind wing tail, adult form has no mouth/does not eat
Species: Luna - moon
Phylum: Arthropoda - exoskeleton, jointed appendages
Class: Insecta - 6 legs, antennae
Order: Lepidoptera - two pairs of triangular wings, proboscis
Family: Saturnidae - eyespots, feathery antennae
Genus: Actias - long hind wing tail, adult form has no mouth/does not eat
Species: Luna - moon
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