Finite / InfiniteFinite / InfiniteIconic / ImmenseIconic / Immense

Mundane / TranscendentMundane / TranscendentBanal / Epic Banal / Epic

Singularity / MultiplicitySingularity / MultiplicityPart / WholePart / Whole

In NatureIn Nature

Φ Phi = 1 : 1.618

My step father made me eat a plate of these when we were camping once…

Hurricane Andrew in three positions, August 1992

Spiral Galaxy NGC 1232

The Cochlea

All of that is to say:

There is pervasive geometry in the organic structure of the universe.

And in you.

Tigris/EuphratesTigris/Euphrates

NileNile

AmazonAmazon

IndusIndus

GangesGanges

YellowYellow

MississippiMississippi

Cultural Expressions

Great Pyramid Complex at Giza – 2550 BC

Nazca Lines of Peru – 1-700 CE

Earhart - 1937

The wreck of the Teignmouth Electron in the Cayman Islands, from a series by Tacita Dean in 1999 See the PBS documentary Deep Water and the book A Voyage for Madmen

The Moon Shots – 1963 - 1972

“Obviously a major malfunction” - January 28, 1986

September 11, 2001

Art Historical Expressions

Pieter Claesz, Vanitas1630

Adriaen van Utrecht, Vanitas1642

Hans Baldung Grien, Death and the Maiden1517

Matthias Grunewald, Crucifixion1515

Bronze statue of Shiva as Nataraja, Lord of the Dance. Chola Period - 860 through 1280

Vajravarahi Mandala, Tibet1800s

Monk crafting a sand mandala – unique to Tibetan Buddhism since 2000 BC

Western Portal Tympanum at Chartres Cathedral, The Second Coming1260

Pontormo, Deposition of Christ1525

Titian, The Transfiguration1560

Henry Ossawa Tanner, Annunciation 1898

Pop Culture

Art - Contemporary

Julie Mehretu, Excerpt

Julie Mehretu, Untitled

Robert Smithson, Spiral Jetty

Bill Viola, The Crossing

Bill Viola, Five Angels For The Millennium

Andy Goldsworthy, Untitled

Andy Goldsworthy, Untitled

Robert Irwin, The Discs

Robert Irwin, The Discs

Richard Serra, Joe

Richard Serra, Band

Jen Stark, Piece of an Infinite Whole

Jen Stark, The Whole

James Turrell, Skyspace at Yorkshire Sculpture Park, England

James Turrell, Roden Crater

James Turrell, The Artist with Roden Crater

Julie Heffernan, Self Portrait as Booty

Julie Heffernan, Self Portrait as Two Queens

Matt Ballou, The Omen – Three Figures in a Landscape

Matt Ballou, The Omen – Four Figures on a Height

Matt Ballou, Self Portrait With the History of the World

Matt Ballou, The Resonators

Matt Ballou, Mandala

Matt Ballou, Beneath Ahab’s Doubloon