Apart from my interest in lichens and botany, I am also a keen crafter, using textiles. While I have been "confined to barracks" because of my ankle injury, I have been occupying myself with craft projects and sorting out my lichen collection - both photographs and samples (which are now all neatly stored in a shoebox in folded paper packets).
I have been having fun with an internet site called Deepdreamgenerator which transforms your photographs by crossing them with the style of another picture.
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| Caloplaca ferruginea |
I took one of my lichen pictures and used the styles they have online and generated these results:
I really liked the transformations and I think they could be inspirational when wanting to make art from lichens. I also tried using one of my own craft works as the "style". This is a rug I made for my grandson (using a technique called rug hooking).
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This produced an interesting texture, a sort of rug hooked lichen:
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| a Parmelia |
I can feel some inspiration coming on for my next rug....
