As the human organism ages, it progresses from a spontaneous, organic growth to a conscious and deliberate repetition of invention. The entity begins to discover the patterns that sustain it, and conjoins and repeats them to perpetuate itself. The circle becomes a square.
Tangentially, but perhaps not unconnected, a thing that cools crystallizes as the energy leaves, its molecules orbiting fewer random points.
And the square always desires to become the circle again, and vice versa. In art, or more generally, techne, the object of the artist or craftsperson is to repeat a series of mechanical motions to approach mastery, which appears as warm and smooth.
This is only a portion of the story. Even in art, there are oscillations of these opposing drives, the mimicry of the organic and the mechanical, and everything in between. And these cycles of oscillation occur within greater cycles of oscillation.
