Mossellany Monday #8: Tardigrades
Art and Energy have been working with Plymouth Culture on a series of Creative Climate Conversations. Our conversations with creatives across Plymouth helped shaped our new book Be More Moss: A Mossellany of Questions for Life.
Each week we’re going to spotlight a simple activity from the book for you to try, it could be on your own, with friends & family or with a community group:
🔎🐛🔬TARDIGRADES: Using Art to Reveal the Unseen: A Tardigrade Observation Experiment.
One of the many wonders of the arts is their ability to bring the unseen to light. Tardigrades, though fascinating, can be difficult to observe due to their size and habitat. Here's a simple experiment to take a closer look:
What you'll need:
A strong magnifying glass or microscope
Moss
Rain water
Instructions:
Soak the moss in rain water and then wring it out into a dish
Use your magnifying glass to observe the creatures living in the moss. Can you draw what you see? or take a photograph?
After observing, return the moss and water to their original location
Enjoy the thrill of discovering these microscopic creatures up close!
We’d love to see your tardigrades! Share any photos or sketches of what you saw with us on our BurytheGiant.Club which is free to join and everyone is welcome.
Art and Energy put together Be More Moss: A Mossellany of Questions for Life for anyone who likes to ponder, doodle and have new ideas - we invite you to draw on your imagination and get creative with this miscellany of facts and quotes about marvellous mosses, with activity pages waiting for your pen and stories of our past and future.
We've designed this book so that it can be used on your own, or as a group activity. It's full of moss-inspired activities and prompts that help people bypass eco-anxiety and think about things in their lives that are relevant to responding to the climate and ecological emergency. It's suitable for teenagers, young adults, older persons, parents or grandparents.
Be More Moss: A Mossellany of Questions for Life is available to read and download, free of charge: https://issuu.com/.../final_be_more_moss_a_mossellany_of...
Treat yourself to a printed copy for £15: https://www.artandenergy.org/.../be-more-moss-a...
Read more about our work with Plymouth Culture and the Creative Climate Conversations project: https://www.artandenergy.org/.../creative-climate...
