It took months to finish Ben’s birthday present,
and it fittingly took months for me to see it finished.

The piece is inspired by mathematician Benoît Mandelbrot’s sketchbook drawings [seen by us while visiting the “Fractals, Chaos, and the Materiality of Thinking” exhibit at the Cranbrook Art Museum].

There are 30 cards,
18 of which have hidden meanings (some more hidden than others),

and all of which remind me of Ben.