Biospheres weeks 9, 10 & 11
My biosphere bio art project is coming to an end. The time has come to soon start taking the biospheres apart and to discover what exactly is left of my Wolpertingers and what other life I can find within these three jars. I’ve already decided to keep the one char I had nourished manually through out the art project intact, apart from cutting off any dried up plants. The other two biospheres will be taken apart and disposed of. But first, before doing any of that, let’s take a lookat the past three weeks of development. I’ve been also using a macro lens during the past three weeks of documentation and been able to find some life (mostly worms of sorts) that I wasn’t able to detect with my bare eyes.
The top of the biosphere sitting outside was not really fully transparent to begin with and has been getting hazier through-out the weeks, so taking photos from the top of that one didn’t really show much changes inside the jar itself. My father-in-law did some landscaping during these weeks, which explains the changes in background.
As mentioned, some new life became visible when seen trough the macro lens, especially in the jar I had placed outside. Taking any clear pictures through the hazy glass of the fully closed biospheres is quite tricky at this point, but I was able to capture atleast something.
Life in the outdoors biosphere
Week 9:
Week 10:
Week 11:
The closed biosphere indoors
Week 9:
Week 10:
Week 11:
The manually nourished biosphere
Week 9:
Week 10:
Week 11:
And finally, the Wolpertingers. Unfortunately the one outside finally drowned on week 9 and there wasn’t much left to document anymore after that.
For comparison, here are the other two Wolpertingers in the chars, I had kept indoors.
Now the time has come to say goodbye to these little creatures. At least two of them.
