Amazing Life-Size Fish Paintings Are a New Vision of Nature http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

Some assumptions are so deeply ingrained that it's difficult to imagine the world from another perspective. Take taxonomics: We're raised to see nature through an essentially 18th century system of classification, one rooted in the urge to impose order on a vibrant, messy world. But sometimes, says artist James Prosek, they get in the way. We perceive names instead of beings, representative types instead of individual animals pulsing with life.



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