microbial mandala : 無料・フリー素材/写真
microbial mandala / omnos
| ライセンス | クリエイティブ・コモンズ 表示-改変禁止 2.1 |
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| 説明 | This mandala was generated from my anthropomorphic colored-ink drawing "vase". The decorative squiggles in the lower part of that drawing have here morphed into what looks like an overhead view of a petri dish where various opague and transparent microbes are replicating. (In the center circle one can see mitosis taking place -- single cells splitting into two. It occurs here because splitting one element into two is a normal part of the process I use to generate these kaleidoscopes.)The mandala also looks like what one would see looking into a late 19th century parlor kaleidoscope with its opaque and transparent bits of colored glass clustered by chance and then replicated into an orderly pattern by mirrors that reflect each other. (See the link below for more on this.)Mandalas imply meditation and microbes may, on first thought, seem an inappropriate subject for meditation. On further thought, however, meditating on microbial life has much to be said for it.View it on a black backgroundView the drawing it was made fromView another, very different, mandala made from the same drawingView some microbe shapes similar to those in the mandala.View a 19th-century glass-particle parlor kaliedoscope. |
| 撮影日 | 2006-10-07 23:13:02 |
| 撮影者 | omnos , California |
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