A sampler of carved and computer generated sculptures
Edgar Meyer
Taos, New Mexico





Setting: Union Square - San Francisco
Model: Avastin, a novel anti-cancer drug earning ca. $3billion/year





Setting: A university campus
Model: Ribosome, the molecular factory for a living cell



4 woods and a bronze
Walnut + oak
8-cell blastocyst
Pecan
the amino acid, histidine



Smithsonian Bronze
Polio virus + receptor

Mesquite
A Molecular abstraction
Swiss maple
Anthocyanin wine anti-oxidant



Ironwood from the Sonoran desert of northern Mexico, gift of Dorothy and Charles Randall
8" (20cm) diameter ironwood log
 log endpiece, top with oil-polyruethane varnish, masking the color palette
4 slabs with partial water-based polyurethane varnish
 raw cut slab partially varnished to show retention of the color palette
bottom carving of slab 2; mesquite handles
 top carving of slab 2







© EM 2008
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