Although separated by hundreds of millions of years of evolution, flies, worms, and humans share
ancient patterns of gene expression, according to a massive Yale - led analysis of genomic data.
No, that interest was and is threaded deeply within a
rather ancient pattern of thought that entails, inter alia, the disinterment, dismemberment, and distribution of the traces of the canonized or beatified dead for veneration among the faithful.
New York - based Ruby Sky Stiler forges sculptures and mosaics in which Amazonian female figures become one
with ancient patterns and symbols, while Copenhagen and Berlin - based Alexander Tovborg's saturated, symbol - laden paintings draw from folk art and mysticism.
His abstract paintings
trace ancient patterns, allowing the viewer to journey through a door to our primordial beginnings, where alchemy plays a role in the metamorphosis of random shapes into powerful symbols.
For this aspect of tradition — the dimension of symbolic distinctiveness preserved in
the ancient patterns of the worship and ritual life of the Church — is at least as central to Catholic identity as many of the doctrinal positions worried about by those who conceive of tradition primarily as a body of authoritative teaching.
If we follow the trail of blood and the language of forgiveness,
another ancient pattern becomes visible in Matthew.
In our time it seems that
the ancient patterns still hold.
Featuring imperfect, hand - drawn lines reminiscent of
an ancient pattern repeated and striped to something contemporary, but also forever.