Still exploring the spiral in Nature. This time in an organic form modeled after a once living creature.

welded stainless steel-5 inches
Just sold; April 2007
The client wrote back after receiving the piece requesting a letter of authenticity;

Nautilus Stem Vase-welded stainless steel- March 30th-2007
LETTER OF AUTHENTICATION

I have fashioned this small piece as an ode to the Ocean and Sacred Geometry.
For me the shape personifies the Fibonacci series and illustrates the natural beauty or conjunction of Art and Science. Art in a lovely natural form and Science in the mathematically perceived pattern of it’s expanding growth form spiral.
Anyone who spends years making objects of beauty ,eventually perceives a repeating pattern of pleasing shapes, proportions and ratios. So extraordinary are the synchronicities and corresponding geometries that the term “Sacred” has been applied to the study.
Introduction to this fascinating morphic investigation is accomplished by the making of models of the 5 “;Platonic” solids. So called “;Platonic” because Plato was the first in literature to speak of them,however archaeological evidence from Scotland has been found that proves this knowledge was known at least a thousand years before Plato.
The five Platonic solids represent the building blocks(shape of molecules)of all matter in the known Universe. Cube, tetrahedron, octahedron, dodecahedron and icosahedron are the key shapes which tell us much about the structure of our world.
The Fibonacci series in it’s various manifestations describes natural phenomena as diverse as growth spirals in bone, seed and leaf pattern such as the concentric spirals on the sunflower, and even patterns of water turbulence in fluid dynamics. Like the game of chess, the more you study, the deeper you go, the more sublime the evidence becomes…
The Numinous is all round us each and everyday. I toast the ancients who seemed ironically more in touch with this fact and taught the parallel instruction of what Gurdjieff called “knowledge and being” ,so sorely lacking in the world of science and technology today.
Even the Nautilus’ method of locomotion and buoyancy modulation in itself is a fascinating example of practical geometry and natural architecture. This shape of beauty and refined form posed for me a worthy subject of sublime construction, and I in my clumsy, naïve, childlike curiosity have reproduced what Nature in her infinite wisdom has wrought. The act itself has given me renewed reverence for the divine contrivance of the supreme architect, may we always respect her efforts and in the study and simulation of her structures never lose sight of their underlying intention to promote the concordance of all life in harmony.