Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (February 16, 1834 – August 9, 1919) was a German biologist, naturalist, philosopher, physician, professor, and artist who discovered, described and named thousands of new species, mapped a genealogical tree relating all life forms, and coined many terms in biology, including anthropogeny, ecology, phylum, phylogeny, stem cell, and the kingdom Protista. Haeckel promoted and popularized Charles Darwin's work in Germany and developed the controversial recapitulation theory("ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny") claiming that an individual organism's biological development, or ontogeny, parallels and summarizes its species' evolutionary development, or phylogeny.
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Its difficult to stop with these images. They share qualities with both fractal imagery and mandalas. They feel 'neural' although I cannot qualify that and am aware that when you start looking for something you tend to see it everywhere. It is also worth noting that these images carry something of a notion of personality of the artist - passionate and painstaking. This would be lacking to this extent were these images captured by technological means. That is not to say however that the photographer isn't present in the photograph. I expect I will return to this work.