Here are some quick musings about DNA helices, and metaphors for integration (and disintegration?) before sharing more recent photographs from our new neighborhood in southern Arizona:
Rhetorical question: Geometrically, the double helix structure of the DNA molecule – where two incomplete and different “halves” attempt to fuse into a new separate identity that keeps “new identities” propagating – can be seen as a classroom metaphor for our attempt to reconcile duality by merging differences, rather than seeing sameness that transcends form. The content in mind (the realm of ideas) of pure awareness doesn’t change, even while the material garment of form manifesting in time and space as ephemeral bodies seems to keep changing from generation to generation, and perhaps more subtly in mutations, but always maintaining the belief in separate, differing (conflicting) selves. What if we all have an All-Inclusive Shared Self that is unchanged, unchanging and unchangeable? What if our real identity (not the symbols of our specific personas or bodies as Plato might point out) is eternally innocent of any distortion, diversion, dilution or delusion? Wouldn’t this ideal be more real than any “perfect” geometric archetype or pattern if based in the unalterable?
OK, now back to our usual program of forms, but perhaps the rhetorical questions about our intrinsic ideals and identities might be interesting to ponder while we’re noticing the daily patterns (geometric and otherwise) that persistently percolate into our surreal worlds, representing a liberating alternative to the finite dreams we’ve conjured.
Here are some more geometric patterns that have crossed my path this past month; enjoy! See how many geometric archetypes you can notice in these photographs…
