Nature is a magician. It produces constant gifts for us. Those gifts are often invisible, but completely essential for most life on earth. Every little leaf around us is an advanced machine that eats carbon, sunlight, and water to produce sugar and oxygen. It truly deserves honor and respect. No human engineering can recreate that machine. In this painting, sugar is represented by a muffin. Carbon is represented by a mouse -- so many of these little fellows died so we could understand the process. In the center is the magic green molecule, chlorophyll, which absorbs just the right wavelengths of sunlight.
