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内容总结：

【科技人的别样雅趣】西雅图Oracle高管用昆虫骨骼打造“死亡艺术”

在西雅图科技圈，一位资深技术专家将她对科学与艺术的热情融合成独特的创作。Oracle云基础设施首席技术项目经理伯根·麦克默里，在工作之余与艺术搭档贝文·邓肯共同创立了“Ebb & Bone”艺术工作室，以昆虫标本、动物骨骼和蝴蝶等自然元素创作装饰画作。

这位拥有艾伦脑科学研究所、Tableau软件公司及自主生物科技初创经历的科技精英，周末常穿梭于林间寻找创作素材。她的作品框架内陈列着蜘蛛、甲虫、蟑螂、小型哺乳动物头骨与蛇类骨架，这些材料均来自废弃的昆虫学收藏或自然拾遗，平均售价约75美元。

“我痴迷于美丽与诡异并存的事物，”麦克默里这样定义她的“死亡艺术”。她特别强调素材必须符合道德与可持续采集原则，绝不破坏现有生态系统，拒绝对专门为艺术创作而牺牲的生物标本。

最令她感到满足的，是能通过作品改变人们的观察方式。“当人们意识到‘原来此处存在被我忽略的美’时，那种打破既定认知的震撼正是我想传递的。”这种与陌生人展开非常规对话的经历，也意外地提升了她在项目管理中“非职权影响力”的社交技巧。

对于这位整日与电脑为伴的技术管理者而言，亲手创作实体艺术品不仅是种调剂，更培养了她解决“特殊流程”的创新思维——无论是优雅展示兔头骨的方法，还是可持续获取昆虫的途径，这些艺术实践中的创造性解决方案都能反哺她的技术管理工作。

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中文翻译：

《离线时光》是极客连线推出的新系列专栏，聚焦西雅图科技圈成员在工作之外热衷的爱好与副业。

姓名：卑尔根·麦克默里
本职工作：西雅图甲骨文云基础设施部门首席技术项目经理
业余热忱：用科学标本（昆虫、骨骼与蝴蝶）创作独特墙面艺术

麦克默里在西雅图科技与科学领域资历深厚，曾先后任职于艾伦脑科学研究所、自主创立的非营利生物科技初创公司HiveBio，以及Tableau软件公司。在甲骨文，她专注于工作流管理、系统设计与自动化领域。

而到了周末，她处理的“程序漏洞”与代码无关。

麦克默里与艺术搭档贝文·邓肯共同创立了“潮汐与骨骼”工作室，定期受邀参加艺术展与创意市集。他们的作品将精心装裱的蜘蛛、蝴蝶、甲虫、蟑螂、小型哺乳动物头骨、蛇类骨骼等标本，与森林中采集或昆虫学档案退役的回收物件相融合。

“我痴迷于美丽与诡异并存的特质，”麦克默里坦言，“我们称之为‘死亡美学’。”

对于创作素材的获取，麦克默里秉持严谨的道德与可持续原则——绝不破坏现存生态系统，拒接采用为艺术创作而培育牺牲的生物标本。某些头骨作品会点缀干花或水晶，大部分陈列于印刷背景板上。“潮汐与骨骼”的作品均价75美元，创作者刻意保持简约风格。

“标本本身已足够精彩，”她指着一只硕大的圆网蛛说道，“这位蜘蛛先生无需任何修饰，只需通过构图彰显其天然美感。”

最大收获：麦克默里最享受的，是引领观众重新审视习以为常的事物。直面巨型蜘蛛、甲虫或动物头骨会令人不安，多数人选择回避。“我希望能唤醒人们这样的思考：‘原来只需驻足凝视，就能发现被忽略的美丽’——帮助人们打破认知桎梏的过程令我着迷。”

职场反哺：与众多科技从业者相同，麦克默里终日与电脑为伴。艺术创作让她获得亲手打造可触可感实物的机会。她的技术项目管理与艺术实践存在共通点：都需要为“非常规流程”设计创意解决方案。无论是构思兔头骨的艺术呈现方式，还是探索可持续的昆虫获取途径，这些挑战培养的技能都能转化为职场难题的创新解法。

“我们常与陌生人展开奇妙对话，这恰恰是我的最爱。”她补充道，“这种社交能力的锻炼，对于项目经理推行‘非职权影响力’至关重要…这可是行业术语，绝非我的杜撰！”

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英文来源：

Out of Office is a new GeekWire series spotlighting the passions and hobbies that members of the Seattle-area tech community pursue outside of work.
Name: Bergen McMurray.
Day job: Principal technical program manager at Oracle Cloud Infrastructure in Seattle.
Out-of-office passion: Creating unique wall art using scientific specimens (bugs, bones, and butterflies).
McMurray has an extensive background in tech and science in Seattle, with stints at the Allen Institute for Brain Science, at her own nonprofit biotech startup called HiveBio, and at Tableau Software. At Oracle, she specializes in workflow management, system design and automation.
On the weekends she handles bugs that aren’t in software.
McMurray and her artistic partner Bevin Duncan are the founders of Ebb & Bone, a collaboration that regularly takes them to art shows and festivals. Their work features neatly framed spiders, butterflies, beetles, cockroaches, small mammal skulls, snake skeletons and other upcycled objects foraged in the woods or claimed from decommissioned entomology collections.
“I love anything that is the juxtaposition between beautiful and spooky,” McMurray said. “We call it dead things art.”
McMurray is dead serious about sourcing her subject matter ethically and sustainably and not messing with any existing ecosystems. She doesn’t want bugs or anything else that have been raised just to be killed.
Some of the skulls might feature dried flowers or attached crystals. Most are displayed on printed backgrounds. Ebb & Bone pieces, which average around $75, are kept simple on purpose.
“The specimens are good enough on their own,” McMurray said, pointing to a very large orb weaver. “This spider does not need anything else, really. He just needs to be composed in a way that emphasizes his natural beauty.”
Most rewarding aspect of this pursuit: McMurray enjoys getting viewers of her art to rethink how they look at things. It can be unsettling to be up close to a giant spider or beetle, or an animal’s skull. Many people would rather turn away.
“I like getting people to think, ‘Oh, there is beauty here that I just wasn’t taking the time to stop and look and think about,'” McMurray said. “So I like helping people, kind of shocking them out of their worldview.”
The lessons she brings back to work: Like a lot of tech workers, McMurrary spends much of her time sitting in front of a computer. Her artwork is a chance to make something with her hands that she can touch and feel.
But her technical program management work and her artistic endeavor both involve coming up with creative solutions for what she called “weird processes.” Solving the problem around how to display a rabbit skull artfully or how to source certain insects sustainably teaches McMurrary skills that she uses to creatively tackle issues at work.
“Also we are always having weird conversations with strangers, which I love,” she said. “The social skills that that reinforces are very necessary for the influencing without authority that one has to do as a program manager. … It’s an industry term, I did not make that up!”
Do you have an out-of-office hobby or interesting side hustle that you’re passionate about that would make for a fun profile on GeekWire? Drop us a line: tips@geekwire.com.