Kunstformen der Technik: the plate book Ernst Haeckel never got to make. I found Haeckel's Kunstformen der Natur (1899-1904) on Wikimedia Commons, where the plates are public domain, and trained a Recraft V4 Style on four hand-coloured ones: Discoidea, Desmidiea, Polycyttaria and Spyroidea. Then I pointed it at the machines I work on every day as a data center tech and phone repairer: fiber bundles, server racks, a Wi-Fi router, cooling fans, earbuds, a dissected smartphone, a network switch and a cracked screen. Each one comes back as a symmetrical 'organism' with a Latin name, numbered figures and that warm Haeckel paper. The router becomes a jellyfish, the switch an anemone of patch cables, the cracked screen a radiolarian. The stuff in our pockets turns out to be as strange and intricate as anything he pulled out of the sea. Social post: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7521933732371689472/