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Ele Willoughby, PhD

The prompt is carmine, a bright red pigment derived from carminic acid, traditionally harvested from cochineal, a sessile parasite on Opuntia cacti in South America, north through to Mexico and the southwest US. They are laboriously collected by brushing them off the pads of prickly pear cacti. The insect makes carminic acid to deter predators but it’s precisely what attracts people,…

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My 8” x 8” linocut print on white Japanese paper shows an Opuntia cactus in green with yellow flowers and white patches like those made by cochineal scale. The background in bright carmine red with a male and female cochineal insect carved in white.
#linocut#printmaking#sciArt
Sep 13, 2023, 12:52 PM·Public
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