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Turing patterns, also called "Diffusion Reaction Patterns" are so attractive to me. I love finding them in the wild or in Joe's salt-water aquariums. Nature is infused with them.
They are the patterns of the universe (ocean coral, your brain, tabby cats, sunflowers).
The background of this painting features a Turing pattern over some chaos. The snake also has Turing patterns in its scales.
I grew up owning snakes, so I have affection for this animal. This one is a Ball Python.
Recently I was going through some difficulty in my life, driving around, and asking the Mystery what I needed to know about the situation.
I parked my minivan in my garage, got out and found a shed snake-skin on the floor IN THE GARAGE at my feet. I still have no idea how it got there (and doing just fine not thinking too hard about that).
It was the message I needed to hear.
Often the irritating difficulty is really the itchy, old skin that's ready to be shed. Every time a snake grows, it sheds it's outgrown skin.
But it's not a quick process. The skin starts to get cloudy, bubbly, shredded. The snake can't see as well through the cloudy scales that cover it's eyes. Constricted, itchy and blind.
At some point, the snake just KNOWS when it is time to start rubbing your face on a rock to get the process started. And we may spend a long time sharpening ourselves against rocks, actively choosing with dedicated work to shed the old.
And finally, we emerge with brightly colored, glistening new skin.