Visuals - Spiral

"The Atom, Shell and Galaxy"

"Triskele Fern"

"DNA"

"The Atom, Shell and Galaxy" - Color version

"Triskele Fern" - Color version

"DNA" - Color version

Artist Statement

“Spiral” is the eighth in a series of compositions to be developed for my thesis. According to Priya Hemenway:

The spiral, an essential tool in nature’s palate has long been regarded as one of the most significant. Spirals are everywhere. From embryos to galaxies, the spiral offers what is perhaps one of nature’s most dynamic proportionate messages in that it arises out of the reconciliation of opposites, harmonious and unaligned. It is the middle way, the path of least resistance, never leaning too far in one direction or the other but always finding perfect balance. (Hemenway, 129)

Nature, the mysterious forces that creates the world we live in, is an experience of such beauty and amazing complexity that it is simply astonishing to stumble across patterns that we can recognize and reduce to numbers and written rules. And yet it happens. As we peer deeply into the smallest parts of what makes up the whole, we find endless reflections of a proportion that describes so perfectly our place in it all; of perfect harmony of dynamics and balance, of known and unknown, of who we are and what possibilities we hold.

~Man was designed for accomplishment, engineered for success, and endowed with the seeds of greatness~ Zig Ziglar

Strange compositions revealed themselves for this week but as always I went with what was being presented to me. So many images flitted through my head as possibilities; hurricanes, rod iron curly cues, galaxies, shells and of course dna and the atom. It will be interesting to see how people react to these.

Works Cited:

Hemenway, Priya. Divine Proportions: Phi In Art, Nature, and Science. 1st. New York: Sterling Publishing Co., Inc., 2005.