This is the first of hopefully many (3-5?) knitted Zika virus balls that I’m planning on making. For the next one I’m thinking of making the base ball a solid white and adding bright blue spikes to the outside to represent neutralizing antibodies. The effect I’m hoping the spikes will have is that it will look like the neutralizing antibodies are leeching the color out of the virus.
Quentin, it looks like you’re in the right ballpark … But aside from me making bad puns, it is a really interesting idea to use the antibody as a color leech. I’m trying to think if I’ve ever seen the removal of color used cinematically to depict loss of viability … surely there’s an example out there from Hollywood or Bollywood!