Double helix – fire escape and shadow

Posted on September 10, 2012 by Katherine Wikoff

I hope you’re not tired of photos.  Because here’s another one I took this morning of the fire escape winding down the side of Milwaukee’s City Hall.  The only camera I had with me (again) was my iPod Touch, so I hope you can see what I saw – specifically, the way the fire escape intertwines with its own shadow all the way down, creating a lacy, spiraled pattern that resembles the DNA double helix.

DNA structure and bases – from the National Genome Research Institute genome.gov (National Institutes of Health). Via Wikipedia

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About Katherine Wikoff

I am a college professor (PhD in English, concentration rhetoric) at Milwaukee School of Engineering, where I teach film and media studies, political science, digital society, digital storytelling, writing for digital media, and communication. While fragments of my teaching and scholarship interests may quite naturally meander over to my blog, this space is intended to function as a creative outlet, not as part of my professional practice. Opinions are my own, etc.
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2 Responses to Double helix – fire escape and shadow

  1. Karen J Spivey's avatar Karen J Spivey says:
    September 10, 2012 at 2:10 pm

    These are amazing, as usual! You have such a great eye–even through the iPod lens. 🙂

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