To start simply, my name is Baron and I am a full-time staff and part-time faculty at Temple University. I have graduated from the institution twice, completing my undergraduate in General Biology after earning an Associate from Delaware County Community College, then again with a Professional Science Masters of Bio-innovation. I am aspirant towards my PhD, targeting estuary sciences as a gap in the curricula offered by CST Biology. I often use lots of drawings in my learning and teaching, serving as reference, external working memory, and engagement tools.

     Among the plethora of text illustrations devolving into ever simplified cartoons, this page is indented to create a space for biological illustration that returns to art, its fundamentals, and the skill of observation. Throughout my undergraduate years, I noticed a gradual decline in my creativity. Obviously, time is a factor, but in reality, I could find half an hour each day to flex my right-brain thinking and fill this gap I find in my character. While I’m at it, I’ve made the subject of this effort my left-brain burden; Biology.

     As for the page itself, I chose the title “Artistic Pathogenesis” to represent the infections nature of creativity that I hope to re-establish within myself. I’ll aim to maintain this theme, hence the introductory post title, with no promises of regularly posting. Maybe that’ll change.

Besides the blog posts, images of what I make will land in a separate gallery with brief descriptions. Blog posts themselves will contain more detail about what inspired me and what I hoped to capture. For my own posterity, I may occasionally post some of the scholarly articles that I’ve read, which become the basis of my works. In select instances, they may elaborate on what the relevance is to biology, or they may provide information that aids interpretation.

– Baron