DISTILLATIONS
SCIENCE HISTORY INSTITUTE
2020, 2024
I was commissioned by the Science History Institute to create pacakges of original illustrations to accompany two feature articles for their digital magazine, Distillations.
“Everyday Monsoons,” Distillations Magazine, May 16, 2024. Gouache, pen and ink. Science History Institute.
“Where do hummingbirds and butterflies go when it is about to rain this hard? What about unhoused people or migrant travelers without documents?”
— Jayson Maurice Porter, Everyday Monsoons
“Everyday Monsoons,” Distillations Magazine, May 16, 2024. Gouache, pen and ink. Science History Institute.
Most Tucsonans refer to any cacti-filled scrubland between properties as “the wash.” However, to the Tohono O’odham, the ak cin is more precisely the “mouth of the wash.” Ak cin farmers know the mouth of the wash as small, seasonal floodplains that “harvest and concentrate water, nutrients, and seeds from watersheds to support greater densities of life.” In the regions northwest and southwest of Tucson, Tohono O’odham, Pima, and Hopi communities practice what their ancestors perfected over 3,500 years ago: planting desert cotton (Gossypium thurberi) in irrigated desert washes. — Jayson Maurice Porter, Everyday Monsoons
“Everyday Monsoons,” Distillations Magazine, May 16, 2024. Gouache, pen and ink. Science History Institute.
“Everyday Monsoons,” Distillations Magazine, May 16, 2024. Gouache, pen and ink. Science History Institute.
“The Sun Queen and the Skeptic: Building the World’s First Solar Houses,” Distillations Magazine, July 14, 2020. Acrylic, pen and ink. Science History Institute.
July 14, 2020
“The total research and development expenditures made thus far in solar energy utilization are infinitesimal when compared with the expenditures made in the development of other natural resources. Sunlight will be used as a source of energy sooner or later anyway. Why wait?”
“The Sun Queen and the Skeptic: Building the World’s First Solar Houses,” Distillations Magazine, July 14, 2020. Acrylic, pen and ink. Science History Institute.
“The Sun Queen and the Skeptic: Building the World’s First Solar Houses,” Distillations Magazine, July 14, 2020. Acrylic, pen and ink. Science History Institute.