"...for there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so..."

--Hamlet, Act 2, Scene 2

Perhaps it is for the simple reason that we are living things that much that we label "good" relates to the sustenance of life, health, and order, and much that we deem "evil" relates to sickness, death, chaos, or disorder. Oddly, the well-ordered systems that are living things are intimately connected to the disorder that they resist, for we live in a universe that tends inevitably to greater and greater disorder. Every process, every biochemical reaction, that allows a living thing to be must cause disorder in the universe to an extent greater than that to which it orders the living thing in which it occurs; for it to do otherwise is thermodynamically impossible.

Despite the inevitable eventual death of all living things, despite the inevitable state of chaos to which the universe must progress, life tenaciously and stubbornly continues to spring forth.

The almost paradoxical relationship between life and the chaos it resists and creates inspired this work.

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Technical information:

This image was created with Wings 3D 0.99.01 (modelling), ZBrush 3.1 (sculpting, UV mapping, normal maps, and texturing), Softimage XSI 6.5 (scene setup, materials, and lighting), and mental ray (rendering). The background was rendered with Apophysis 2.07. Final retouching and editing was carried out using Photoshop CS3.