Hidden in Plain Sight, 2019, mixed media, 12 x 5.25 x 4.75 in. / 30.48 x 13.33 x 12.06 cm.

Hidden in Plain Sight, Suze Woolf, 2019, mixed media, 12 x 5.25 x 4.75 in. / 30.48 x 13.33 x 12.06 cm.

Artist book: Wood, handmade and letterpress printed paper, viscose, nylon thread

Artist book based on a paper by Six et al.: ~25% of lodgepole pines in a research tract survived mass attack by mountain pine beetles. DNA analyses of the survivors showed less encoding for certain VOCs that the beetles perceive. The interior pages of the book have been printed with "ASCII art" of the mRNA base pairs for the gene that turns of monoterpene synthase. The proportion of dark, low-contrast ("quiet") to light, high-contrast ("noisy") pages in the book is 25/100.