A single Banksia inflorescence holds an extraordinary world of detail. Look closely, and what first appears to be one unified form reveals hundreds of individual flowers, each with its own structure and place within the whole.

Perhaps we are much the same. Our identities are not defined by any single characteristic, but by the many layers of experience, memory and contradiction that coexist within us. It is their relationship, rather than any one perfect element, that makes us who we are.