Kindra Crick 🧩

Good Morning! What a joy it is to read the ‘Nocturnal Worlds’ exhibit guest book. “Lessons of… “ Now I’m curious about this! #sciart #sleep #portlandart

Going into the last week of the Nocturnal Worlds exhibit. Meeting this morning to tour the exhibit with a neuroscientist to talk about a future collaboration. He originally met me in my old studio over a decade ago during an open studio. That interaction inspired him! #sciart #portland

Was hanging outside a library with a friend when a man asked if we might help him figure out where to drop off his ballot. We directed him to the book drop that had a sign saying it was an official ballot drop off. He looked surprised as if to say “Wait, it’s that easy?!” Yes, it’s that easy. 💥

Found some prized Matsutake last week! Truly a joy to find these hiding under the duff. Smell like cinnamon and radishes to me ( the book says red hots and gym socks - iykyk). #fungifriday 🌿🍄‍🟫

Happy #fungifriday 🌿 Found this in such an odd spot along a popular hiking trail. Clearly folks do not know what they are walking by! A King Bolete 👑

I say it’s an odd spot only because it is so close to the city. Typically one needs to get out in the woods to find these beauties. Popped up in the exact same spots as last year! Knowing where the mycelium is; it’s like knowing about an underground fruiting tree.

Happy #fungifriday 🌿 Found this in such an odd spot along a popular hiking trail. Clearly folks do not know what they are walking by! A King Bolete 👑

From my Artist Talk on Sunday at Waterstone Gallery. An engaged and curious audience with thoughtful questions about sleep, dreams, and personal experiences with insomnia made for a lively conversation. I gesticulate when talking about the claustrum and slow wave sleep! #sciart #scicomm #portland

How does one depict a state one is not conscious of? The painting on the left is called ‘Slow Waves in the Midnight Deep’ with a ghostly figure upside down in monochromatic blues surrounded by a week of sleep data. She is unconscious- her hair filled with undulating waves. Lost to the world.

Good morning! Today at 11am, I’ll be sharing the stories, science and creative process behind my latest work exploring deep sleep, dreams, memory and insomnia at Waterstone Gallery #Portland #sciart I should be getting ready. Hope to see some of you there!

I’ll share how my paintings and an installation combined my own EEG brainwave recordings during sleep with dream diaries and personal experiences to map the mind’s elusive inner landscapes.

Good morning bluesky! I’m at Waterstone Gallery today after 11am for my exhibit ‘Nocturnal Worlds’ ✨ Come by if you are in #Portland #sciart #painting #sleep

Good morning bluesky! I’m at Waterstone Gallery today after 11am for my exhibit ‘Nocturnal Worlds’ ✨ Come by if you are in #Portland #sciart #painting #sleep

Good morning bluesky! I’m at Waterstone Gallery today after 11am for my exhibit ‘Nocturnal Worlds’ ✨ Come by if you are in #Portland #sciart #painting #sleep

One of today’s Nobel Prize winners, Karl Deisseroth, said he was inspired by Francis Crick’s original call for precision targeting of neurons in a Scientific American called "Thinking about the Brain" and kept a copy of the original 1979 issue on his desk. 🧪 stanfordmag.org/contents/new...

In 2016, I used blue light for my 'Cerebral Wilderness' neuron art installation as nod to optogenetics! ✨ Why blue light? The foundational experiments by @deisseroth.bsky.social that launched the Nobel Prize winning technology of optogenetics in 2005 used blue light at ~ 470 nm #sciart 🧪

Of course I was also highlighting the perineuronal net structures surrounding neurons thought to be important for memory from research out of Dr. Sorg’s lab. That’s the netted fabric wrapping around the neurons in this installation. They were using optogenetics as part of that research.

One of today’s Nobel Prize winners, Karl Deisseroth, said he was inspired by Francis Crick’s original call for precision targeting of neurons in a Scientific American called "Thinking about the Brain" and kept a copy of the original 1979 issue on his desk. 🧪 stanfordmag.org/contents/new...

One of today’s Nobel Prize winners, Karl Deisseroth, said he was inspired by Francis Crick’s original call for precision targeting of neurons in a Scientific American called "Thinking about the Brain" and kept a copy of the original 1979 issue on his desk. 🧪 stanfordmag.org/contents/new...

My brother was in town and took some photos of me in my studio. The first is what I should use for my artist portrait… but the second brain toss shot is more fun, right?

‘Madagascar Bullseye Moth’ mixed media on panel A silk moth for #SciArtSeptember day 22 : #silk​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ Native to the island of Madagascar, this beauty flashes two bright magenta eyespots to startle predators. Part of an installation for my Nocturnal Worlds show opening Oct. 1 #moth 🌿