Not a hidden tradition, but perhaps a resonance?
The panel I went to this afternoon, the Vonda McIntyre Memorial, alerted me to an artform that she worked in that I had not known of -
Beaded Crochet Sea Creatures - exquisite and scientifically accurate.
And I was very much reminded of Mrs Delany and her botanically accurate flower collages.
While McIntyre was not quite as old as Delany when she turned to this new form of expression, she was in middle years when she began on this similar union of art, craft, and science.
I also managed to raise the question - thinking that friends and colleagues of McIntyre's might know - whether my speculation about the squid-moths in the Starfarers tetralogy being a deliberate getting back at Margaret Atwood's sneer about not being one of those writers of science fiction with talking squids might have any foundation? Alas, no-one could say for definite, but they thought it would not have been unlike her. This entry was originally posted at https://oursin.dreamwidth.org/2928204.html. Please comment there using OpenID. View
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