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Kindra Crick 🧩 @kindracrick.com · 30/09/2026

The show Nocturnal Worlds is up at Waterstone Gallery! Folks in Portland can see it today and the Opening Reception is tomorrow. I installed my sleeping brainwaves in a gallery along with portraits with hypnograms for deep sleep, dreams and insomnia. #Portland #sciart #sleep

Invitation with figure swarmed by wide-eyed moths.

Invite reads:

KINDRA CRICK
NOCTURNAL WORLDS
FIRST THURSDAY OPENING
October 1, 5 - 8pm

Waterstone Gallery

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Kindra Crick 🧩 @kindracrick.com · 23/09/2026

My brother was in town and took some photos of me in my studio. The first is what I should use for my artist portrait… but the second brain toss shot is more fun, right?

Woman with crossed arms in front of two figurative paintings.

Woman tossing a painted brain in front of paintings.

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Kindra Crick 🧩 @kindracrick.com · 22/09/2026

‘Madagascar Bullseye Moth’ mixed media on panel A silk moth for #SciArtSeptember day 22 : #silk Native to the island of Madagascar, this beauty flashes two bright magenta eyespots to startle predators. Part of an installation for my Nocturnal Worlds show opening Oct. 1 #moth 🌿

A mixed media painting of a brightly colored Madagascar Bullseye Moth with uncanny eye spots against a deep blue sky.

Part of a larger art installation which can be partly seen as black brush strokes behind the painting.

#art

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Kindra Crick 🧩 @kindracrick.com · 20/09/2026

Although not strictly time travel, there are delightful people who in their presence bring you back to moments and trigger memories through stories that transport you back to bygone versions of yourself. Never miss an opportunity to celebrate with old friends.

Polaroids capturing decades old friends gathering to celebrate joining the half-a-century club.

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Kindra Crick 🧩 @kindracrick.com · 19/09/2026

What happens when you ask about the droid at the planetarium…

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Kindra Crick 🧩 @kindracrick.com · 18/09/2026

Greetings from taxidermy land. 👋

Taxidermy head of a large moose on a wooden wall.

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Kindra Crick 🧩 @kindracrick.com · 16/09/2026

If your city was a holiday, which one would it be? Portland, Oregon would most definitely be Halloween 👻 #portland

A brick wall with hanging flower baskets and a looming giant ghostly figure looking over the wall.

Halloween decorations up at a blue house in mid-September

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Kindra Crick 🧩 @kindracrick.com · 16/09/2026

Sneak peek at the cover of my new artist’s book. 🧠 #sciart #artistbook

Book with a pale blue brain on the cover laying on top of a cutting board with tools around it.

#art

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Kindra Crick 🧩 @kindracrick.com · 13/09/2026

Attempting to use my typewriter for some text for an artist book which will contain directions on how to lucid dream. Getting the alignment has been one heck of a learning curve. Using paper from a very old lab notebook. #sleep #luciddreams

Typewriter with “How to Lucid Dream” typed out in blue ink

Grid lab paper with descending text that says “Wake up Early and Go Back to Bed” several times down the page.

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Kindra Crick 🧩 @kindracrick.com · 11/09/2026

Alright, time to see if we can make some magic using a huge roll of kozo paper. ✨ Experimenting should be fun 🤩

Hand holding a large roll of Kozo paper on the ground.

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Kindra Crick 🧩 @kindracrick.com · 11/09/2026

‘Try to Love the Questions’ block print, gold ink and graphite on old geologic map An anatomical valentine for #SciArtSeptember day 11 : #heart #maps #printmaking

A decades-old geological map with fantastic colors with various tones of pink and red as a background for a block print in deep maroon of my anatomical valentine.

There are notes in graphite and on top of this map of mineral deposits I added gold pigment ink.

by Kindra Crick

#Art

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Kindra Crick 🧩 @kindracrick.com · 11/09/2026

Progress on the background for this Comet moth. #sciart #moth 🌿

Painting of a Comet moth (Argema mittrei) with bright yellow wings and peering eye spots against a dark blue background

#art #painting

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Kindra Crick 🧩 @kindracrick.com · 10/09/2026

A Comit moth against a deep blue background for #sciartSeptember : woad - which is a deep indigo. Still a work in progress and will be part of my swarm of moths with unique eye-spots. #moth #entomology 🌿

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Kindra Crick 🧩 @kindracrick.com · 02/09/2026

Don’t paint with greens all that often. Working on this Oleander Hawk Moth today in the studio. It has some impressive #malachite tones. It’s part of an installation which is slowly coming together. A work in process for now. #SciArtSeptember #moth 🌿

Green Oleander Hawk moth on paper mounted to board.

#art #mixedmedia

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Kindra Crick 🧩 @kindracrick.com · 01/09/2026

And the postcard with all the dates and details. 🙂 Including the ‘Science on Tap’ talk I’ll be giving mid-October. That’s going to be a blast! 💥

Bach of an exhibition show card

Kindra Crick
NOCTURNAL WORLDS
Mapping the elusive inner landscapes of deep sleep, dreams, and insomnia
September 30 - November 1, 2026
FIRST THURSDAY OPENING
October 1, 5 - 8pm
ARTIST TALK
Sunday, October 18, 11 am

Crick will also be giving a SCIENCE ON TAP talk Wednesday, October 14, 7pm @ Kiggins Theatre
Vancouver, WA

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Kindra Crick 🧩 @kindracrick.com · 01/09/2026

So excited! Nocturnal Worlds, my show at Waterstone Gallery, opens Oct 1 For >year, I’ve recorded my brainwaves while asleep & kept a sleep diary I transformed nighttime data of deep sleep, dreams & insomnia into paintings and prints to explore the mysterious inner world of sleep. #sciart #pdxart

Image of an upside down figure with eyes closed and moths with staring eye spots swarming her auburn hair. At the bottom there is a hypnogram of sleep data.

KINDRA CRICK NOCTURNAL WORLDS
October 2026
Waterstone Gallery, PDX

#art #artopening #pdx

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Kindra Crick 🧩 @kindracrick.com · 31/08/2026

Progress on this one. One gets to a point where a piece needs a name. Current working title is ‘Haunted Reverie’ This reoccurring dream involves a fallen bird I tried to rescue. I kept trying to change the ending. Almost finished. #sciart #sleep

A sleeping woman against a night sky. In her hair are two birds - one fully rendered and broken. The other a phantom singing a nighttime song. Four hands reaching towards the fallen bird.

At the bottom is a sleep hypnogram noting the various stages of sleep.

#art #mixedmedia #wip

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Kindra Crick 🧩 @kindracrick.com · 23/08/2026

A sketch at noon and the last shot I took last night. Been working on this painting in my head for quite a while. It’s one of my ‘Dream’ paintings. I’m enjoying watching it emerge on the canvas. #wip #mixedmedia

Pencil drawing of hands reaching for a wounded bird’s body inside a figure’s hair who we see sleeping at the top of the image.

#art #drawing

Hands the color of a night sky reaching for a wounded bird’s body inside a figure’s hair who we see sleeping at the top of the image. A second bright yellow bird who seems un-rendered watches with a dark speech bubble over them.

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Kindra Crick 🧩 @kindracrick.com · 21/08/2026

You never forget your first Total Eclipse! Mine was August 21, 2017 - 9 years ago. Who else remembers their first time reaching Totality? 🔊 Sound on for full effect #eclipse #totaleclipse

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Kindra Crick 🧩 @kindracrick.com · 21/08/2026

Good morning! Pick a dahlia to describe how you’re feeling today.

Dahlia with dark magenta center with an array of petals that shift from yellow to deep pink.

#bloomscrolling

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Kindra Crick 🧩 @kindracrick.com · 12/08/2026

Oh Amanda. When I think of her I just see her smiling. Maps and a letter written on the back of some daily weather reports. I found this today on a geological survey map of Yellowstone. I’d not noticed it before.

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Kindra Crick 🧩 @kindracrick.com · 11/08/2026

In the middle of looking through my collection of geological survey maps for one to cut up and found this. A Geological Survey of Mt. St. Helens from 1958. Decades before it blew its top! 🗻💥 (Not sure who Mr. And Ms Nash are. But, their stamp is in the bottom right.) #maps #cartography

Geological Survey Map from 1958 of Mt. St. Helens which famously blew its top off in 1981.

Geological Survey Map from 1958 of Mt. St. Helens which famously blew its top off in 1981. A stamp of Mr. And Mrs. Thomas A Bash is in the bottom right.

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Kindra Crick 🧩 @kindracrick.com · 09/08/2026

Look at those gorgeous false gills, stipe splits like string cheese…

Hand holding Chanterelles to show false gills. Sp. Cantharellus formosus

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Kindra Crick 🧩 @kindracrick.com · 08/08/2026

Well Hello, Summer Chanterelles! #fungifriends 🍄‍🟫

Chanterelle’s growing out of the forest duff.

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Kindra Crick 🧩 @kindracrick.com · 08/08/2026

Artist Louise Bourgeois created a series of over 200 mixed media works on paper created during her nights of insomnia. A number of works have spirals. The “doom loops” of rumination in images and sometimes words. I reference her work in my sleep series that includes insomnia. #sciart #insomnia

Works by artist Louise Bourgeois which are part of a series of over 200 mixed media works on paper created during her nights of insomnia.

A grid of 12 red, black and blue swirls

#art

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Kindra Crick 🧩 @kindracrick.com · 07/08/2026

‘Try to Love the Questions’ block print, gold ink and graphite on old geologic map 23” x 19.5” framed On view at Waterstone Gallery this month. #maps #sciart

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Kindra Crick 🧩 @kindracrick.com · 04/08/2026

Typically in Oregon we don’t play this game until September.

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Kindra Crick 🧩 @kindracrick.com · 04/08/2026

Smoke filtered light casting a tangerine hue on the wall this morning. AQI 99 #wildfire

Tangerine light on the bathroom wall with a shadow of a hand.

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Kindra Crick 🧩 @kindracrick.com · 03/08/2026

At a stopping point yesterday when I realized my painting was staring back at me. #wip #sciart #moths

Progress image of a painting of a figure with swarming moths. There are eye spots on the wings that are noticeably human.

#art #painting

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Kindra Crick 🧩 @kindracrick.com · 26/07/2026

Last day of #NationalMothWeek Here's something wild: Emperor moths have no mouths. They eat everything they'll ever eat as caterpillars. Once transformed, their only job is to mate. "Nocturne Ill" an Emperor moth block print rendered in shifting iridescent blue. #moths #sciart

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Kindra Crick 🧩 @kindracrick.com · 25/07/2026

Reminds me of this photo of the 2017 Eagle Creek fire.

Golfers in WA play on while fires burn across the Columbia River in Northern OR.

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Kindra Crick 🧩 @kindracrick.com · 25/07/2026

Watched ‘The Odyssey’ last night. Who else grew up watching ‘The Clash of the Titans’ and felt like Christopher Nolan was paying homage to that era of practical effects cinema? #theodyssey #movies

Cyclops in a cave in a wash of amber light about to eat a soldier.

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Kindra Crick 🧩 @kindracrick.com · 22/07/2026

People sit or lay on the ground near Black Sands to feel the thumps of steam release under this pool! The earth shakes, there is a thump like a drum and the steam bubbles up into the pool and billows over you. In this video you can hear us trying to figure out what’s happening…

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Kindra Crick 🧩 @kindracrick.com · 22/07/2026

Deep reflective blues, bubbling over and billowing steam. The wild bison stretch across the valley. At such altitude the light seemed brighter. What a magnificent place. Some of the colors and textures from our recent trip to #Yellowstone

The Grand Prismatic spring with a rainbow of color billowing steam

Two bison in the golden hour of sunset

#yellowstone

Artist point waterfall with rainbow seen in the basin spray

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Kindra Crick 🧩 @kindracrick.com · 12/07/2026

There were two bison in front of our hotel at Yellowstone. One of the staff said a guest tried to pet one!! Despite ample printed warnings to stay 25 yards away. He showed us a video of a bison starring down that man backed against a cabin behind an ADK chair. He was let into the cabin unharmed.

Bison resting mid-day in front of Lake Hotel Cabins. (Photo taken at a distance from a car because …don’t get close to wild animals)

Large bison who wandered through the cabins at the Lake Hotel in Yellowstone.

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Kindra Crick 🧩 @kindracrick.com · 12/06/2026

If you are curious about the knowledge that old masters used to enhance their craft, I highly recommend reading this book. It’s a wonderful collision of science & art prompted by an artist’s deep curiosity, a curiosity that never dimmed. Thank you, David Hockney, for showing us how to look.

David Hockney photo collage Pearblossom Highway and van Erik’s The Ghent Altarpiece from David Hockney’s book Secret Knowledge

#art #arthistory #davidhockney

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Kindra Crick 🧩 @kindracrick.com · 12/06/2026

The inscription in the front makes this book a treasure. The book was a loving birthday gift from my grandfather, Francis Crick, to my grandmother, Odile Crick, who was a figurative artist. They would have seen many of the old masters Hockney examines, together at the National Gallery in London. 3/4

Book inscription “For my wonderful Odile with so much love
from your adorning
Francis

0, B'day: 11 August 2002”

Secret Knowledge
rediscovering the lost techniques of the old masters
David Hockney

Books are always such lovely gifts!

#DavidHockney

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Kindra Crick 🧩 @kindracrick.com · 12/06/2026

In his book Secret Knowledge, Hockney recounts the story of how he uncovered scientific & visual evidence, examining major works of art history & unveiled how artists such as Caravaggio,Velázquez, van Eyck, Holbein, Leonardo & Ingres used mirrors & lenses to help create their famous masterpieces 2/4

It is worth repeating here, I think, that optics don't make marks - they only produce an image, a look, a means of measurement. The artist is still responsible for the conception, and it requires great skill to overcome the technical problems and to be able to render that image in paint. However, the moment you realize that optics had a deep influence on painting, and were used by artists, you begin to look at paintings in a new way. You see striking similarities between artists you wouldn't normally associate; you notice big differences between painters who are traditionally grouped together; and you see distortions and discontinuities in pictures that are difficult to explain unless optics
had been used in some way.

#art #davidhockney

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Kindra Crick 🧩 @kindracrick.com · 12/06/2026

David Hockney’s curiosity had a profound impact on me. In 2007, I was able to select books from my grandparents’ collection. I picked this one up, and it changed the way I understood both traditional western art and how we use tools to create images. 1/4

David Hockey’s book ‘Secret Knowledge’

#art #davidhockney

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Kindra Crick 🧩 @kindracrick.com · 20/05/2026

My painting ‘Qualia: To Experience Red’ is based on the philosophical discussion of subjective experience mentioned in the article below. What is the raw, subjective feel of experiencing particular wavelengths of light? #sciart #neuroart #qualia #color

‘Qualia: To Experience Red’
Ink, gouache and pigment print on paper
28”x 36”

Painting and collage with a silhouette filled with illuminated blue stained neurons over a circle of vibrant red surrounded by black with connections of angled thin white lines.

“Qualia: To experience red" in the title refers to the Mary's Room thought experiment in philosophy, devised by Frank Jackson.

#art #collage #mixedmedia

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Kindra Crick 🧩 @kindracrick.com · 30/04/2026

As you can see I’ve documented dreaming about mushroom foraging 😄 Dream Atlas mixed media on panel 24 x 30 Inspired by a vivid dream recorded on Aug. 8 2024 of wandering the forest examining my map of mushroom spots, foraging for chanterelles and lobster mushrooms. #sciart #sleep #dreams 😴🍄‍🟫💭

Painting of a sleeping figure drifting upside down against a night sky with her hair unfurling into a map with mushrooms, crowned with the foliage of Salal, Oregon grape, and Douglas fir branches. At the base of the composition are EEG brainwaves from that night, linking dream fragments to the biological rhymes of sleep, evidence of an active mind that we are only sometimes aware of. On either side of the figure is are hypnograms of a weeks worth of sleep data.

#art #mushrooms #dreams

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Kindra Crick 🧩 @kindracrick.com · 27/04/2026

Came across a patch of morels of unusual size today 😳 #forager #morels 🍄‍🟫

A morel mushroom as large as the hand holding it. Sp Morchella snyderi

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Kindra Crick 🧩 @kindracrick.com · 24/04/2026

A Happy #FungiFriday to you! A first for me - Mountain Blond Morels! They are so very lovely. 🍄‍🟫🌿 #forager #morels #mushrooms

Four blond morels pushing out of the duff.

Sp. Morchella tridentina

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Kindra Crick 🧩 @kindracrick.com · 11/04/2026

We sleep to remember/ we sleep to forget… “The sleep to forget/sleep to remember model claims that the unique neurochemistry of REM sleep is designed both to consolidate emotional memories (sleep to remember) and to decrease the level of arousal associated with these memories (sleep to forget). “

The sleep to forget/sleep to remember model claims that the unique neurochemistry of REM sleep is designed both to consolidate emotional memories (sleep to remember) and to decrease the level of arousal associated with these memories (sleep to forget). As we've learned, there are high levels of activation in the amygdala uniquely in REM sleep, which supports the reactivation of emotional memories. However, the REM brain is also in a state of suppressed noradrenaline activity; noradrenaline is a neurotransmitter associated with arousal, so its inhibition during REM sleep means that we do not exhibit as much physiolagical
arousal as we do in waking life. This unique combination of high amy
dala activity combined with low noradrenaline means that the content of an emotional memory can be safely strengthened (and potentialy reexperienced in dreams) in a low-arousal state. Subsequent recall of the memory then benefits from lessened arousal, too, a learned diss-ciation. This prevents an unwanted buildup of anxiety associated wih emotional memories over time, but as we'll see later, this benefit is lot for those who experience nightmares.

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Kindra Crick 🧩 @kindracrick.com · 10/04/2026

Thank you again Henry Moore for your weighty contribution to my studio practice of using art books when adhering large sheets of paper to board. #artstudio

Five art books including Henry Moore, Matisse, and Van Gogh stacked on a birch panel on top of a large piece of paper.

#art

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Kindra Crick 🧩 @kindracrick.com · 10/04/2026

While I was crouched down looking by a log I heard a crashing through the cottonwoods. A deer bound up into the far meadow. They seemed curious about me starring at the ground moving leaves around like I’d lost something important.

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Kindra Crick 🧩 @kindracrick.com · 10/04/2026

As always, I was about to give up and then I found some. Later, cooked them up in butter for dinner. 🤌

Morel mushrooms cut up in a glass dish on a cutting board along side another mushroom.

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Kindra Crick 🧩 @kindracrick.com · 10/04/2026

First morels of the season near the Columbia River in Oregon. Not bad for an early morning walk with only a few snags on blackberry bushes. #mushroomforager 🍄‍🟫

Half-free morel mushroom hiding in the duff.

Sp. Morchella populiphila

Morel mushroom in the grass.

I think it’s a Sp. Morchella importuna

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