I found some pictures on my hard drive today. Nothing unsavoury – quite the opposite, in fact. I thought you might like a look.

I’ve lost the details of where they came from (that’s my excuse for multiple copyright violations, anyway)… I think the idea was to look at the pictures and try to think about the process of which they’re snapshots, rather than the “things” which they “represent”.

1 An easy one to start with:

2 The best product I saw at Surrey Street Market last year:

But how did it grow? And how does matter-energy flow round it?

3 Your nervous system is formed of billions of these, all spun together:

Same question, though: how did it grow, and how does matter-energy flow round it (and between it and the other neurons that constitute a nervous system)?

4 My manor:

But how did it grow, and yada yada matter-energy blah?

5 Here’s a highly stylised diagram of a network of chemical reactions which go on in every living cell of your body:

6 OK, now let’s zoom out a little:

Ya git me? Ya git me though? …Sorry, I’m getting over-excited.

7 Bringing it back home to Croydon, just round the corner from Surrey Street:

8 And very closely related to #7… and all the others, naturally:

9 Bonobos are rude little monkeys*.

10 Last one – something I sneezed onto some agar:

11 Oh, go on then, just one more:

Footnote

* Obviously bonobos are apes. That’s the whole point of the diagram. They are rude, though.

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