# artificial biology | #1of1xtz

By [talyssa](https://paragraph.com/@talyssa) · 2022-07-03

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notes and observations from a parallel biome | generated on midjourney
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**1 of 1s now on** [**objkt**](https://objkt.com/collection/KT1T1vRBxeo7NuL4o3j8CR7XNGZjw7aHgBdP)

As a full time scientist, you’d imagine that I spend a lot of time marveling at the expansiveness of our living world. I wish that were the case. The truth is that there are a lot of structures in formal (academic) science… or maybe it’s that there’s a high tendency to forge structures out of fluid systems.

As a historically masculine discipline, biology has not been allowed to be _pretty_ in a very long time. Yet, there are interactions within and between biological entities that operate so successfully on the spectrum of grace and flamboyance-- as stewards, shouldn’t it be our responsibility to appreciate this beauty on a public stage?

Using midjourneyAI, I created this collection with intention to appreciate biological forms. I think when you work with a prompt-based AI, that’s the best way to describe the output… abstractions, forms, suggestions. Yet, it’s the fact that these shapes are not true to the biology we know that I hope offers you a new lens into a space that has been overly characterized, and overly observed, and overly structured.

To those who might end up with these unique editions, thank you & may you love science for the way it exists beyond our observation.

### colophon

All parts were generated using [MidJourneyAI](https://www.midjourney.com/) and collaged together. They’ve been listed as 1 of 1 editions for July 2022’s [1of1xtz](https://twitter.com/1of1xtz).

You can also [grab the moodboard](https://objkt.com/asset/KT1T1vRBxeo7NuL4o3j8CR7XNGZjw7aHgBdP/0) I used for this project which features some personal notes alongside figures from Earnst Haeckel, Franz Baur, and The Codex Seraphinanus. 1,111ed available for 0.11xtz.

![artificial biology // moodboard [ 1111ed, 0.11xtz ]](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/14dc0c3e6a92907e404307c7a801be2ab2841aff00916ff17670fa7a224823a3.jpg)

artificial biology // moodboard \[ 1111ed, 0.11xtz \]

### supplementary materials

This time I’ve got books:

Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens, People in the Trees by Hanya Yanagihara, Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

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### about

Talyssa uses “PhD candidate in Microbiology” as her opening line in every bio that matters; however, like many constituents of academia these days, she is on the quest to find her _plat de résistance_. If you’re interested in keeping up, you can find her [in other places.](https://talyssa.carrd.co/)

_Hi! Thanks for making it to the bottom of the page :)_

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*Originally published on [talyssa](https://paragraph.com/@talyssa/artificial-biology-1of1xtz)*