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Scientists and Artists as Storytelling Teams

A conversation with artist and naturalist Zoe Keller. The post Scientists and Artists as Storytelling Teams appeared first on Nautilus.
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Zoe Keller is an artist on a mission to capture the beauty of biodiversity before it’s too late. Working in both graphite and digital media, she meticulously brings animals to life with a reverence evocative of the great 19th-century naturalists. Instead of cataloging newly discovered species, however, Keller celebrates those in danger of vanishing.

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That’s one reason Keller was the perfect choice to illustrate the cover of our first as well as the for about the decline in nautilus populations. We recently caught up with her to ask about

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