Firstly, using Escher's optical illusion from his work "Waterfall", dated 1961 (based on the Penrose illusion).
This image confounds our senses and throws into doubt our ability to perceive correctly. Escher had a profound understanding of linear perspective.
I have substituted the waterfall in Escher's work with spheres,
terrestrial and celestial globular Godheads. These represent the
religions, beliefs and ideologies pertaining to the human populace
of our planet Earth.
They are of differing size, cascading downward and onward melting away in a perpetual water course, each Godhead deemed to hold the truth.
Within the painting are a number of animals, of land and sea. All have been exploited by man, rituals, experiments, body parts for the misguided pursuance of medicines, aphrodisiacs, cosmetics, and the trade in souvenirs and trinkets for empty headed tourists. The Lips, Teeth and Tongue represent, avariciousness, immorality, licentiousness, dissent, freedom of speech, enjoyment etc.
Chance throws the dice in the options that we encounter at each bifurcation (split) along life's path, but we must decide. We don't have prior knowledge of the options we will encounter later, so prediction is at best tentative. We must be prepared to correct our choices, if the outcome proves to be different to our expectations, in other words to recycle our ideas.
The water in Escher's painting endlessly recycles and this is true for us also. Our bodies retain their form but recycle all the materials that make them up. Ecologies and Planets thrive on recycling...
Would you destroy your arm ? Surely not, yet the material that made up your arm last year is now distributed amongst all the lifeforms on Earth, and what they were has now become part of you also. Shouldn't you care for them equally ?