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  • (Left) a red bird biting a purple flower; (right) purple diagonals with red dots. Watercolour by M. Bishop, ca. 1977.
  • A red excrescence surrounded by red ovals overlaid by a red grid, with blue dots. Watercolour by M. Bishop, ca. 1970.
  • Left, ten rows of purple hooks, diagonals and whorls; right, twelve rows of red saltires, crosses, circles, dots and dashes. Watercolour by M. Bishop, ca. 1977.
  • A woman covers her nudity; but in vain, because her facial features, marked with numbered dots, allow us to interpret the hidden contours and shapes of her body (according a method attributed to Lavater). Coloured lithograph.
  • A pair of open hands with the dots of a telephone receiver at the centre and a list of the type of things that the SIDA Info Service dares to talk about including sex, love and drugs; advertisement for the SIDA Info Service. Colour lithograph by Stratéus and Conception Polymago.
  • A pair of hands clenched together with the dots of a telephone receiver at the centre and a list of the type of things that the SIDA Info Service dares to talk about including care, hope and anguish; advertisement for the SIDA Info Service. Colour lithograph by Stratéus and Conception Polymago.
  • Human neural stem cells stained for nestin (red). Nestin is a type of intermediate filamant protein that is used as a marker of neural stem cells. The blue dots are the cell nuclei stained with DAPI. Neural stem cells can be made to develop into cells found in the central nervous system; neurons, astrocytes and oligodendrocytes.
  • "Princess Dot.".
  • "Princess Dot.".
  • Admiral Dot : thirteen years old; twenty-five inches high. Weighs only fifteen pounds.