Linearity II

Pictured are subsequent larval stages in Physophora magnifica, a colony building jellyfish species. The glass models series as shown in the photograph is linear. My  watercolour shows an loose arrangement of the embryonic shapes. The question might be: what is organic? Model series of the siphonophore  Physophora magnifica,  based on illustrations by  Ernst Haeckel. Shown is the series from the collection  of the Utrecht University Museum.  Similar series are preserved in the  collections of Vienna University,  Cornell University and the  Museum of Comparative Zoology of Harvard University.

Physophora magnifica.   Watercolour 2011,  ( c 40 x 30 cm)