IS LIKE...
	I found my way from 'looks like' to 'is like', from the likenesses between the visual patterns of fetal lung tissue and the patterns of ice/water formations. These visual similarities are fundamental to all analogical or iconic thinking, a working from the known to the unknown.

A microscopic view of the breathing chambers of the lungs near birth is like...
the crystaline pattern formed by surface ice on an arctic lake is like...
The pattern of breathing chambers over the pattern of surface ice is like
the mathematically constructed geometric patterns of Islamic art.