This is absolutely nerdy, but its occurred to me I’d be done by now if this goal didn’t say “paint”
This is my line of work – day in and day out at the lab I work at, I extract DNA from mice, rats, ferrets, rabbits, dogs, and humans, replicate them via a Polymerase Chain Reaction, and run gel electrophoresis.
You stick each little sample of DNA into a square of agar and set a charge to the agar gel, in a pool of buffer. DNA is negatively charged, so it floats through the gel to the positive end of the pool. The agar is stained with Ethidium Bromide. It glows under UV light, and the special polaroid we use pictures it and does exactly what this stupid website is selling (for a tiny fraction of what they’re charging!!) Each band is a gene, and each person’s/animal’s will be different. This is the same technique used by crime labs, etc, to match a person to a sample from a crime.
I swear, if I ever need to make a self portrait for any art class of mine, I’m going to see if I can get away with this. This is my nerdness, defined by a soulful scientific masterpiece. Yup.
My cat peed in the vicinity of the beginnings of my real portrait because I gave him a bath today and he’s pissed, and its airing outside. Probably not salvageable, but oh well. Bigger fish to fry currently.
