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I began dreaming of a wolf, which had been a recurring dream of mine from the past; and I came across a meme online, it showed the connection between patterns in nature – the veins in leaves look like river maps and also the arteries of human lungs.  I used the river/vein markings in my image and created them to look like foliage surrounding the impression of a wolf’s head.

This connection with the natural world and animal kingdom is also symbolised by the DNA strand pattern with the golden thread intertwined.  It reaches up into a sea of circles, where its strands become scattered.  The circles represent all the people and events in our lives spinning around us like wheels or cogs of a machine.  Identity is made up of multiple layers and shaped by everyone and everything we come across in our entire lives.  From a distance, the circles appear to blend in and are not distinguishable as individual, unique forms; however, some are larger, some darker, some rise to the top, some drift behind, all are imperfect, much like we are.