Lizah van der Aart

@lizahaart.bsky.social

💚Science Illustrator on YouTube: MinuteEarth and xkcd's What If? 🌎 🌷Artist 🎪 Cosplayer ✨

An unforeseen advantage of leaving academia to be an artist is that I have lost a big pressure to perform at a certain level at a certain age. Artists start at any age and only improve with time. Plus theres not really a linear type of progression.

I’m thinking of making ‘blind box’ soil bacteria pins. You open a package and 1/6 potential bacteria is inside. Both as a fun gift and genuine way to communicate that scientists have the soil as a blind box and find whatever they find.