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Illustration Key:
Cell Division: Basic building blocks of the body, cells make the first
separations from self to self and other. Despite being unique, they all
contain the fundamental genetic material of the whole system. How do
we pass on the DNA of our movement while maintaining diversity, and
not scaling up a monoculture?
Darwin Quote: The colloquial understanding of Darwin’s theory of
the “survival of the fittest” is largely misunderstood. He is quoted as
saying “It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most
intelligent that survives. It is the one that is most adaptable to change.”
Not Good, Whole: Balance doesn’t exist unless we welcome and nurture
cultures of wholeness. We must put down our assumptions of
purity and binaries of inside/outside - we are in relations of constant
contamination.
City Planning: Our built environments shape us as much as we
shape them. We can use universal design principles and accessible
architecture in our towns and cities that facilitate easeful flow, resource
distribution, and ways to connect the inner work with shifting structural
conditions.
Lace Lichen: Lace lichen grow in an intricate netted structure and are
health indicators in their ecosystem. They are holobionts, meaning they
are a single organism made up of cells from more than one kingdom namely fungi, plant and bacteria (the human body’s reliance on bacteria
to survive technically also classifies us as holobionts).
Apoptosis: The death-sequence of a cell that gets triggered by various
factors including cellular stress, DNA damage, and dissociation (the
absence of survival signals) from neighboring cells. The health of the
single cell is always shaped by the health of the neighboring cells.
Jade: A flowing river of Jade soaks its cleansing waters into the inflamed
network. In order for there to be repair and accountability, what is stuck
must be washed and soothed so that flow can be restored.
Tree Cross Sections: Trees are models of vast and organized resource
distribution, conductors of give and take, communicating via porous and
boundaried channels.
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