The #linocut shows a schematic of the whimsically named process “bubbling” surrounded by soap bubbles printed on paper which I marbled with #suminagashi inks. ⁠
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“The structure, elegance & beauty of mathematics struck me immediately, & I lost my heart to it,” she wrote. Math at UMich then NYU, for grad school. She married biophysicist Olke C. Uhlenbeck, son of physicist George. Her in-laws encouraged her pursuit of math. Olke moved to Harvard & she switched to Brandeis U (PhD in ‘68).⁠

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Failed attempts at Suminagashi. I have a lot of used sketch paper I'd like to cover up with marbling. But, I've been forcing myself to believe I won't need to buy surfactant if I just keep repeating the same process. So, after a couple of rings the water just stops receiving anything. :\

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