Found art: the yeast vacuole

ABSTRACT

Over the past 9 years I have worked with artists who have used various media to portray the process of autophagy. This has included paintings, protein music, a piano composition, a wood sculpture, a quilt, and a dance. Here, I describe a two-part project that focuses on the vacuole/lysosome. In the initial part of the work I assembled the found-art vacuole; the second part involved the work of a professional watercolor artist, who describes his part of the project from a non-scientist’s perspective.

KEYWORDS:

• Autophagy
• kitchen tool
• lysosome
• stress
• utensil
• vacuole
• yeast

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Funding

This work was supported by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences [GM131919].