Visual metaphors not only help describe difficult concepts, but they can also allow you to play with them. One of my favourite ways to do that, is by anthropomorphizing them, giving objects personality and purpose, either through their relationship to one another, or by injecting them with human qualities they don't actually possess.
Consider the following images I've made.
Darwin Took Steps
Sowing Seeds & Fossils
Science-Chess Accommodating Religion
Haldane's Precambrian Puzzle (config a: false rabbit)
Haldane's Precambrian Puzzle (config b: true trilobite)
How does each give a personality to inactive objects?
What are the spatial relationships?
Do you feel the metaphor is decisive about an issue, as in a political cartoon? Is it open ended?
What do you see? What do you imagine happens next?
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