A lot of people have helped elevate this project from a lunatic idea into a tangible reality. Special thanks to the following people and organisations for their contributions to the Genomic Cross Stitch Project:
Thank you to every participant in this project for their contributions, big and small. Friends, family, artists, colleagues, and those crazy enough to see this and think “Oh, this looks interesting…”
This would be an impossible endeavour without you, and there is something wonderful about the comfort and warmth that can be found by having a laugh around a stitching circle. 😊
The Art Room: I cannot thank Erika Gofton, Jennifer Whitten and Filomina Coppola enough for their encouragement, support, and regular challenges to “do more” through their mentoring and friendship in the Expanded Practice program.
A huge thank you to my fellow Expanded Practice artists for creating such an amazing community to be part of. They have helped build this project, from random, excited and sometimes baffling discussions about DNA, sanity checking my process (and often me), but most importantly, mirroring my excitement though out this entire lunatic endeavour!
JK’s Cross Stitch Supplies: I think I shocked Janet when I enquired about the quantity of material and thread required for this project. But once ordered, she updated me on where things were up to, and everything arrived quickly and safely.
Jeff Tullin and Ursa Software: The Open Cross Stitch File Format (.OSX) allowed me to take the genetic information found in the
N. deltocephalinicola genome and, using the power of Python, turn it into the multitude of cross stitch patterns that were rendered in WinStitch. Thanks for answering all my strange questions and helping make everything just… work!