Artistic Notion of Mimicry, a Case Study: Does Triatoma maculata (Hemiptera: Reduviidae: Triatominae) Plagiarize Bees, T
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Artistic Notion of Mimicry, a Case Study: Does Triatoma maculata (Hemiptera: Reduviidae: Triatominae) Plagiarize Bees, Tigers or Traffic Signals? Elis Aldana 1 & Fernando Otálora-Luna 1,2 Received: 7 June 2018 / Accepted: 27 February 2019/ # Springer Nature B.V. 2019
Abstract What we observe, through our usually limited lens, is that differential growing of space determines forms -characterized by their shape, size and coloration. As nonEuclidean geometrical mathematics have proclaimed: forms are manifestations of the curvature of space. Physics and other natural laws impose mathematical structural restrictions to biological forms. The molecules comprising any living form become arranged in specific ways in response to physical forces as well as chemical and biochemical conditions. Over time, such forms inherit additional historical (i.e. genetic) restrictions that make up their meaning, their semiotics. Color does not escape from this orthogenic reality. In this study, we present the colored pattern of the connexivum of Triatoma maculata, an insect vector of the etiologic agent of Chagas disease. This model is used as an example to appreciate mimicry under a heterodox and provocative approach. We unveil that beyond 1) mathematical and 2) historical semiotic restrictions of T. maculata mimesis of a yellowish-black alternating pattern, there are also 3) artistic interpretations; where metaphysics of life, beyond human perspective, is included. Keywords Mimesis . Mimetism . Mimicry . Hermeneutics, Triatoma maculata . Chagas
disease . Sensory ecology
* Fernando Otálora-Luna [email protected]; [email protected]
1
Laboratorio de Entomología BHerman Lent^, Departamento de Biología, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Los Andes, Mérida 5101, Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela
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Department of Biology, School of Art & Sciences, University of Richmond, Richmond, VA 23173, USA
Aldana E., Otálora-Luna F.
Dedicated to the memory of Aníbal Rodríguez Silva (Maracaïbo: 1962 – 2016). Per communem igitur similitudinem ab vmbris datur accessus ad vestigia, á vestigiis ad speculares imagines, ab istis ad alia.1 / Quædam veró adeó arti videntur appropriata: vt in eisdem videatur naturalibus omninó suffragari: hæc sunt Signa, Notæ, Characteres, & Sygilli: in quibus tantum potest: vt videatur agere præter naturam, supra naturam, & si negotiun requirat, contra naturam.2 Giordano Bruno, De umbris idearum / Ars memoriae (1582a, b) Tenemos un defecto: nos falta originalidad. Casi todo lo que decidimos hacer está inspirado —digamos francamente, copiado— de modelos célebres. Si alguna novedad aportamos es siempre inevitable: los anacronismos o las sorpresas, los escándalos.3 Julio Cortázar, Simulacro (1962)
Foreword To mimic is to observe and replicate another’s form or behavior, but it implies an imitation with suspicious intentions. In several human contexts, some types of imitation are considered theft or stealing, i.e. plagiarism. This category is concerned with the acquisition of reputation and credit through fabricated claims.
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