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“Not only is the Universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think.”
― Werner Heisenberg, Across the Frontiers
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I stumbled across this photo the other day and I have come back several times to look at it. It’s the image of a mosquito’s foot at 800x magnification and there’s a strange organic beauty and weird delicacy to it that draws me in.
The complexity of the individual elements in its design is fascinating. The reddish grabby claws have a certain elegance but I can only think that if a mosquito were the size of a housecat they could latch on to you with those claws and you would never be able to merely swat them off.
Thankfully, I have yet to come across such a mosquito.
I can only think that if something so common as a mosquito can seem so alien, even if beautiful, imagine how strange the truly alien might be. As the physicist Heisenberg points out, are we even capable of imagining such strangeness?
Redtree Times 
Every time I’ve come back to this, I see something different. Once, it reminded me of those grade school art projects where we made pictures with pasta. Then, I saw textile art, and then origami.
In the end, I had the same thought about this that I often have about plants: why, and how, did they develop like this? What’s the purpose of such complexity? It’s certainly something to ponder.
When I read you mentioned the pictures kids make with pasta, I immediately saw it and realized that was what I was struggling to recognize. Thank you!
I wonder if kids still do that…?
I wonder, as well.