Saint Pea - 2020
20" x 24"
Wood and acrylic
$8,000
Notes from the artist:
Observations about pea hybridization by village farmers, who were almost always women, led Gregor Mendel, who grew up in such a village, to conduct the first modern genetic research. Rigorous experiments allowed Mendel to build a mathematical model of inherited characteristics. If you cross-pollinate purple and white peas, the recessive white gene is expressed only after skipping one generation. That would explain why I look like my grandmother. And Saint Pea smiles down upon us all.
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