mankind

like all life a mystery

yet life at its center

strangely simple

elegant

hidden deep within each cell

littered with ancient ancestral remnants

a master plan entangled with endlessly whirling pairs repeated

a message in cipher

at each life's dawn latent secrets are made manifest

each destiny half free

half fettered with tiny thread

Art from science:

The above poem is encoded in the art. Notice that it does not contain the letters b, j, o, u, x, or z. This is because there are not corresponding amino acids for these letters. Also note that the artist would have rather used "humankind" in place of "mankind." Unfortunately, humankind contains a "u," one of the unavailable letters, and DNA translation always begins with an m, the amino acid Methionine. Stop codons were used for the spaces.

The original is Dymo and aluminum duct tape on canvas and measures 38 inches by 24 inches.