BioArt Bayou-Torium

The 2022 iteration of BioArt Bayou-torium with the shipment container at a public park in the East End. Pictured are live pond specimens, visitors on sketch and nature tours, cyanotype workshops, public discussion with environmental groups (SPLASH, Air Aliance, DIDU, Bayou Preservation Association, Save Buffalo Bayou), performance by the Great Egret, communal lunches, and microscope demos; Location: Yolanda Black Navarro Buffalo Bend Nature Park, 2300 Sgt. Macario Garcia Dr., Houston, TX; Project duration: Oct 1 thru Oct 16, 2022, https://www.bioartbayoutorium.org/2022-ybn-nature-park

Various activities of the first iteration of the BioArt Bayou-torium, a social practice project open to audiences for all ages, a shipment container situated along the banks of Buffalo Bayou, with digital microscopes, participants with printed images, pontoon boat tour, and the logo; Location: Tony Marron Park, Buffalo Bayou, Houston, TX; Project duration: April 13-14, April 20-21 and April 27-28, 2019. https://www.bioartbayoutorium.org/tonymarron

Drawings: (L to R) “bayou-entanglements ver.1”, “Got-it-by-the-tail”, “Entanglements”, (2021-present ea.), Dimensions: 8.5” x 11” ea., Media: jamaica tea and mixed media on letter head paper.

Microscopy / Photography: (L to R) "Pterygoplicthys Eyelid”, "Pterygoplicthys Eye”, "Pterygoplicthys Mouth”, "Pterygoplicthys dorsal fin tip”, " Pterygoplicthys skin”, " Pterygoplicthys dorsal fin base”, (2018-present ea.); Minimum dimensions: 19” x 13”; Media: Ink-jet prints.; The Pterygoplichthys (the Janitor fish), digital photo of live animal w/microscopy.

Sculpture / Installation: “bayou-entanglements” (2019); installation photo w/details, Dimensions variable; Media: fabricated pond of concrete and lumber in the shape of the Pterygoplichthys (the Janitor fish), plant-life, live Janitor fish, digital-media projection. Location: SITE Gallery @ the Silos Sawyer Yards, Houston, TX; Exhibition duration: Oct 11 thru Dec 7, 2019.