a beating heart in winter (2024)
gorse blooms like sulfurtone fire in the snow. gorse has haemoglobin. I know it doesn't bleed, but

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a beating heart in winter (2024)
gorse blooms like sulfurtone fire in the snow. gorse has haemoglobin. I know it doesn't bleed, but
i was admiring cnidarians yesterday and this plant has big polyp vibes. this is real cool
CNIDARIAN REALNESS!! I love that comparison…
i really really like this art.
the flower's vascular system looks unnervingly fleshy with the red.
like flesh where flesh shouldn't be, even if symbolic — and how wonderfully unsettling that is.
and i got curious about its hemoglobin, and so i looked into it.
i kind of laughed when i saw its technical name.
gorse is a legume, and it makes proteins that resemble hemoglobin...
...so they call it leghemoglobin.