From the Gallery Director

Primal Mother

Greetings Brothers and Sisters,

The "Animatica" puts forth the understanding that all of Humanity is one entity and that the perception of separation and individual isolation -or the common experience of an adult human- is a magnificent illusion. A spiritual metaphor of the mushroom and its mycelium root is offered up as a way to visualize our Oneness on a metaphysical level.

We live in an age of science where spiritual understandings and metaphors are not easily accepted, and so a biological addendum or proof, for the more skeptical members, of our Oneness, is forthcoming:

The biological proof of this Animatic perception is fundamentally simple to test, by your own reason, and to substantiate by your own understanding of biological function: Follow your cell divisions back to the source of your inception.

In the beginning you were one cell in your mother’s womb, her cell. Your father’s sperm cell arrived, offered up DNA sharing and the cell divisions that became you began. So, the cells that make up your physical being right now are the further divisions of your mother’s cells. You are the continuation of your mother’s cell divisions.

Now, follow the cell divisions back even further and you will arrive at your mother’s inception in her mother’s womb. Your mother’s physical being is a continuation of the divisions of her mother’s cells.

Back and back, generation after generation, we can trace the cell divisions. Eventually we will arrive at the primal mother, the first human female. All humans on this planet can trace their individual lineage back to this primal mother. We are her children and, in a profound way, we are her cells continuing to divide. We are her.

The human entity began as a mass of one. We were one point of sentient awareness in cosmos. Now, millions of years later, still a mass of one, we have grown to six billion points of sentient awareness.

Six billion fingers on one hand.

Look around at the people in your community. We are you.

Look around at the people in your country. We are you.

Look around at the people in your world. We are all you.

We are One.

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