Or rather: Why? and What?

I’ve named this website after Archaeopteryx for a number of reasons. Firstly, Because it’s among the best-known fossils and I’ve long occupied myself with the history of Paleontology. But perhaps even more importantly, it’s become one of the icons of science in general, something of a totem in fact. Of course, I’m not referring to the icon I created above, but rather to the image below:

For me it symbolizes the combination between (con)text and optics that I like to use in my work.