An offering to the productivity gods

This is a drawing I did in 2007, when I was in India.  My goal when I was there was to learn something about the mythological nature of rivers, and so one thing that attracted me were the stories from the Bhagavata Purana that involved the Yamuna River.  In one of them, Krishna defeated the five headed serpent-demon Kaliya, who was living in the Yamuna and causing it to be poisoned.

Resources: you are here

you are here is a journal published by the University of Arizona Department of Geography.  The theme is 'the concept of place', which lends itself nicely to mutual art/science exploration.  In practice, there is not a lot of direct scientific content in this journal, although the many of the creative works reference the scientific understanding of geography.

I will point out that I have two poems published in the current issue: Browsing the International Tree-Ring Data Bank, and Getting Laundry Done in Rampur.  Both poems are geographical in nature, but only the first could be called scientific. 

Welcome

Hi, I'm Hanna, and I intend to write about the intersection of art and science in this blog.  I am in the process of developing an art practice, and also getting a graduate degree in ecohydrology/watershed management.  I am interested in the use of art as a way to communicate some of the more transcendent aspects of scientific thought and progress.  I do this mostly through mixed media 2-D works, but I have been known to write poems as well.  One of my big goals for the next 3 years is to develop a large scale collaborative art project that deals with rivers and how we see them geographically, socially, and spiritually.

To start things off, here is a link to my portfolio: http://hannacoy.otherpeoplespixels.com/home.html. It's a little out of date, but if you want to comment on anything there, I am happy to hear it.  I may also talk about useful research/information tools from time to time.  Thanks for reading.