https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/18p0JurLpOkvf11DRuvgMzkIJ_7eQNbdRwNq-V24ZF_Q/edit#slide=id.p

 

This link will bring you to my PechaKucha presentation of Maria Sibylla Merian made with Google Slides.  She was an extraordinary person with incredible accomplishments and astonishingly beautiful illustrations.  These slides share much of her work as well as some of her family history.

Maria Sibylla Merian was a seventeenth century naturalist and illustrator.  She is known for her beautiful paintings and drawings of different plants and insects.  She conducted research and kept record of it beginning at the early age of thirteen.  This presentation gives an overview of her life and her accomplishments, and it also shows her amazing work.  I also included some research about the hemispheres of the brain and what the concept of “right brain” and “left brain” actually means.  This presentation informs the audience of the accomplishments Maria achieved over her lifetime as well as some insight of her family members.  It concludes with mention of Maria still being well-known and widely respected today, over three centuries later.  Not only was her work extraordinary for her time, but to be a female with such accomplishments and recognition during that time was incredible.

I searched google for images of a human brain cell being compared to images of the universe.  The similarities are astounding. The lines and patterns look almost identical. I find it extremely interesting that one small life form on one tiny planet surrounding a star, that in comparison to the rest of the celestial bodies in the universe isn’t very big, can still bare such a resemblance to the entire universe itself.  It shows you that everything in existence really is ONE. As someone who meditates often, I see these pathways through the universe as a mass transit system. Our brain seems to have its own mini transit system within itself, with all parts working together to keep us alive and provide all the functions we need to survive.