Is it art, architecture, planning, melancholy or opposable thumbs? It is clear that we enjoy making things in our likeness. Are humans capable of abstract thought or is everything anthropomorphic? If images reveal truths, then let inanimate objects speak.

Food: We are what we eat

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Arcimboldo,_Giuseppe_Summer.jpg 

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Farm: Heaven and Hell are bipolar

Hieronymous Bosch, "The Garden of Earthly Delights"  1490-1510 El Museo del Prado

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Garden_of_Earthly_Delights

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Architecture: Like dancing, it is the vertical expression of our horizontal desires*

Sarah Silverman with Sir Norman Foster, "Swiss Re Building" 2003 London

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/30_St_Mary_Axe

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Art: The sensible image of the infinate** possibilities (after Duchamp)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Nauman

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Religion: Like many religions (Greek Gods, Christian Jesus is the son of God,etc) we sculpt the unknown into simply doubt

Caravaggio, "The Incredulity of St.Thomas" 1601-1602 Sanssouci of Potsdam, Germany

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doubting_Thomas

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Beauty: Suspended Animation

Inka Essenhigh, "Beauty Contest" 1999

http://www.inka-essenhigh.com/ 

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Nature: From the grotesque to the transcendental 

Ana Mendieta, "Siloetas" 1970s

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ana_Mendieta 

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Science: The powers of Ten

 Paul W.K. Rothemund, "Scaffolded DNA Origami" 2008 Caltech

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_origami

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In the wake of recent history, I'm withdrawing my investment in pickled sharks, and depositing it in Roneriness. Maybe Damien Hirst can learn a thing or two about anthropomorphism from one of the great performance artists of the past half century?

* "Dancing is the vertical expression of our horizontal desires"-George Bernard Shaw

** Francis Bacon