In 1904 the biologist Ernst Haeckel published plates so precise and so beautiful that scientists argued whether they were data or decoration. His radiolarians - microscopic sea creatures - look like lanterns, like cathedrals, like the inside of a snowflake.
He was accused of making nature too symmetrical. Perhaps. But he was drawing the truth of the very small, and the very small really is this ordered. Color it and you are coloring the architecture of a single cell.
In the app, a private note in the margin can suggest where to rest a color - signed by the studio, never applied to your work, never shown to anyone.
In the app, Haeckel's sea lanterns comes with a piece to color by (2 min 30 s · J. Okafor) and your finished page joins your collection. The pattern itself is on paper, in Volume II.
The Gilded Margin is an adult coloring book brand where every pattern comes from a documented cultural source, with its story to read and music to color by.
