Microcosm of the Web of Life

Microcosm of the Web of Life*

Painting on display at the Living with Nature Center

San Vicente, Ilocos Sur

Dr Abe V Rotor

"Each living creature must be looked at as a microcosm—a little universe, formed of a host of self-propagating organisms, inconceivably minute and as numerous as the stars in heaven." - Charles Darwin

Microcosm of the Web of Life in acrylic patterned after an image 

under the microscope  by the author (23"x24") 2025

Nature is a huge encompassing network: 

    living and non-living in dynamic union

in unending and reversible transformation,

    from Genesis to our time still at work.

God's greatest mystery - peace in diversity,

    from monerans to the highest order;

each indispensable, related to one another 

    in a trilogy: diversity, harmony, unity

 

  Closeup showing the intricate and interconnectedness of the living network. 

Constellation likened to mycelia under the lens, 

    in Gulliver's travel in Lilliput and Brobdingnag

a giant yet dwarf in another world, how sad,

    not to know the meaning of our fifth sense.

“Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.” - Chief Seattle Leader of the Suquamish and Duwamish Native American tribes

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* Microcosm: Derived from Greek words "mikros" (small) and "kosmos" (world or universe), the term signifies a smaller entity that mirrors a larger one.