Drawing mundane things like my dish rack had helped me survive job loss. ... A 2016 study at Drexel University found significantly lower levels of cortisol after 45 minutes of making art.

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Talk about art in unexpected places. Balaram Khamari’s canvas is the petri dish. He arranges microorganisms ... almost anyone could draw a bird like it. Except this drawing is alive — the ...

Scientists use microbes such as germs and bacteria to make art for the American Society for Microbiology’s Agar Art Challenge.

This practice has led to a calmness that I didn’t know I could achieve. I like how the dish rack reconstitutes itself continually. It is an automatic still-life. No two dish racks are ever the same.