Destructive Traits Research Articles

Posthumous Portraits in Motion: Experimental Animation, Metamorphosis and Reflections on Mortality

This article details an oil paint-on-glass animation depicting posthumous portraits of unclaimed deceased from a Johannesburg mortuary in South Africa. The creative project engages with Western traditions of posthumous, focusing on the iconography of the corpse. The author explores how these traditions are approached through the moving image, metamorphosis and experimental animation processes. The animation uses metamorphosis not just as a symbolic strategy to serve the idea of transformation – but also as a self-referential engagement with animation’s contradictory life-giving and destructive traits. The article and the creative project it illuminates present a critical awareness of the ethical concerns associated with representing the dead and the cultural and historical traditions from which this subject emerges.

Tamanho ótimo de parcela com mudas clonais de cafeeiro conilon LB1 produzidas em tubetes

ABSTRACT In experimental studies, achieving an optimal plot configuration holds significant importance. This study aimed to establish suitable experimental plot sizes for evaluating agronomic traits of clone LB1 conilon coffee seedlings grown in tubes. Both non-destructive and destructive traits were evaluated using seedlings obtained from a nursery, with each seedling allocated to basic experimental units. A completely randomized block design was used and various scenarios were generated based on combinations of treatments (3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35 and 40), replicates (3, 4, 5, 6 and 7) and levels of experimental precision (10, 20, 30 and 40 %). Convenient plot size recommendations were obtained for clone LB1 conilon coffee seedlings grown in tubes.