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A full-page colour plate of sea anemones in red, yellow, green and violet against a dark seabed, headed Haeckel, Kunstformen der Natur, Tafel 49 and captioned Actiniae, Seeanemonen.
Kunstformen der Natur, Tafel 49: Actiniae (Seeanemonen) · Ernst HaeckelImage

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Repetition makes an invitation: look again. These intricate worlds reward a wandering eye, from the smallest forms to the patterns that seem to stretch beyond the frame.

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A dense abstract sheet of looping white lines over swirling bands of red, yellow, blue and green, with spiral clusters and a pale circle near the top left.
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A turquoise cat with wide yellow eyes stares out from a deep blue ground, its fur drawn as white lace-like tracery with small red and pink accents.
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A standing deer entirely encrusted in clear glass spheres of varying sizes, on a grey square plinth against a white studio ground.
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A three-panel canvas in pink, beige and coral crowded with eyeball-faced skulls, a red flying saucer, a robot-tentacled orb and a green-hooded figure before a city.
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