Meguey Baker This is clearly in your wheelhouse.

Meguey Baker This is clearly in your wheelhouse.

Originally shared by Yonatan Zunger

The National Academy of Sciences is hosting an exhibition of art quilts inspired by the chemical elements – and it's quite a thing to see. Below is "Iridium: My Darkness To Light II," by (cell biologist) Grace Harbin Weaver, inspired by the use of Iridium electrodes implanted in the human brain to study vision and perception. You can see all of the works here:

http://www.saqa.com/store-view.php?scat=48

or at the NAS itself, at 2101 Constitution Ave. NW in DC.

h/t to Josh Witten and to The Finch & Pea, which has more on this exhibit at http://thefinchandpea.com/2015/07/29/the-art-of-science-radical-elements/ .