Why are we alive? What is our purpose? What makes each of us who we are, unique in our own way, and what makes us humans different from other lifeforms? Where did life itself first come from?





These were some of the questions I asked myself at the beginning of my pre-thesis project, in a course called ‘The Living Visual ’ centred around Biology.





I began research and traced the answer from evolution through heredity to arrive at a molecule in each of our cells called deoxyribonucleic acid . We know it better as DNA .