In this stylized version of a baby in utero I show how at first, the human embryo resembles a simple amoeba–like life form, then a fish, then a reptile with tail and then by 10 weeks it is a fully formed human foetus.

I also wanted to impart a sense of the sanctity and interdependence of all life. I do not think that to acknowledge our roots in the animal world is to deny our special powers as human animals.

In the latter part of the 20th Century Gaia Theory or Earth Systems Theory gave us the understanding of the Earth as a single self regulating organism.

As such it has been regulating its temperatures within a small average range, under ever changing conditions, for hundreds of millions of years.

Ancient nature based cultures all regarded the Earth as alive. I used the metaphor of an Earth seed to explore with paint the organic nature of our planet.

Experiencing silence and the part it plays in restoring our sense of connection to the natural world and to reality as a whole is central to a visit to the Eco-shrine [see Eckhardt Tolle’s book of sutras entitled Stillness Speaks].