Upcoming Event: Marine Snow, A Lyric Meditiation Book Reading & Art Display

Dr. Clarissa Karthäuser and Larie Kaplowitz, one of the artist-scientist pairs from The Synergy Project, will be hosting a book reading and art display of their collaboration, Marine Snow, A Lyric Meditation. Please join us on Wednesday, April 23, at 5:30 at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution's Redfield Auditorium to meet Clarissa and Laurie and learn how they came together to create science inspired artwork.

About Marine Snow, A Lyric Meditation

The book features paintings accompanied by text that traces the journey of marine snow as it travels from the surface of the ocean to the sea floor. Karthauser’s scientific work combines biochemistry with microbiology to gain a deeper understanding of carbon cycling in the ocean and the processes that drive it. The duo decided to envision marine snow as a woman and personify the life cycle of organic matter as it travels from the ocean’s surface to the sea floor. Clarissa wrote the narrative and designed the text pages. The narrative, a meditation that is lyric and elegiac in tone, accompanies Laurie's paintings to evoke birth, growth, and eternal sleep.

When: Wednesday, April 23, 5:30 pm
Where: Redfield Auditorium at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 45 Water Street, Woods Hole, MA