Inspired by Turing's morphogenesis drawings and Maria Popova's What Happens When we Die?

Popova says: "Here we are, you and me...each of us a trembling totality, made of particles both absolutely vulnerable and absolutely indestructible..." and further, we invigorate life "...with aliveness: our art and our music, our poems and our mathematics, our novels and our loves."*

Turing's morphogenesis diagrams,** then, according to Popova are: "...hand-drawn, hand-colored morphogenesis diagrams — eerily beautiful visual explorations of dappling patterns, leaf arrangements, and daisy rings...", are also powerful symbols of the immortality of the spirit. They remind us that we are part of a larger and more mysterious pattern of life, one that is constantly evolving and transforming, one that is shaped by our love and creativity.

We are lucky to be here, lucky to be.

*Popova, M. (2022, January 10). What happens when we die. In The Marginalian.

**Popova, M. (2016, March 1). Alan Turing's little-known contributions to biology and his mesmerizing hand-drawn diagrams of dappling patterns. In The Marginalian. 

Image created with the assistance of Playgroundai.com. 2023.