Cellule
Cellule
Cel animation
2015
Cellule was prompted by the homophone of “cell” and “cel” – short for “celluloid”, the clear plastic sheet used in production of traditional cartoons. Thale Cress is a tiny mustard green. Its seeds are smaller than a millimeter wide, but each seed is made of approximately 5,500 cells. So, I created an animation with 5,500 cels. At 24 cells per second, a Thale Cress seed is 3 minutes and 53 seconds long.
Cellule was made possible by a grant and residency from Utopiana, Geneva, Switzerland. Special thanks to Sylvan Loubéry & Michel Goldschmidt-Clermont at the Department of Botany and Plant Biology, University of Geneva, for providing the opportunity to count the number of cells in an Arabidopsis seed.