Friday, October 1, 2010

Natural Killer Cell 3 and 4 copyright 2010 by Dave Putnam


As with yesterday's painting I am depicting the human body's greatest microscopic warrior, the Natural Killer Cell. However, I am using more fanciful imagery for this pair. In both panels the NKCs look like killer bees. In the first panel the bee-like NKCs are swarming a green clump of cancer cells and are begining to shred it.

In the second painting in the series the bee-like NKS have destroyed the cancer cells and with the fighting done they assume a more peaceful posture which almost makes them look like daisies, a reminder that while the NKS are savage at destroying malignant cells they are friendly to their fellow human cells and stop attacking once the enemy is vanquished.

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