“Everything within a Circle Is One Thing”

circled, enframed,” wrote 20th-century American mythologist and lecturer Joseph Campbell. This month’s cover art, A Timeless Symbiosis, uses the motif of circles to connect animals and humans. Bindu Viswanathan, the artist who created the painting, is also a lecturer and biostatistician at the University of Texas, Austin. Many of her paintings inspire viewers to think about the fuller connection between animals and humans. According to Viswanathan, “Circles have no beginning and no end, much like the interdependence of humans and animals. They also represent the womb, the origin of life, and its continuum.” (All quotes from B. Viswanathan, pers. comm. Nov 3, 2017.) Viswanathan incorporates elements from the Indian tribal art of the Warli, an indigenous people who live in the hills of western India, into A Timeless Symbiosis. For instance, Warli art, which has been practiced since at least