the word of the week is numbers. i must admit numbers tend to scare me. i was ok at math back in the days, but today i prefer to avoid them whenever possible. numbers are so serious and not negotiable, numbers are bills, dates, deadlines.
but then i was looking at some of my little treasures from nature. i have way too many scattered all over the house and garden. to my defense i must say i really do enjoy them, to look at them, hold them. anyway, i realized that one of the things that attracts me to them are the repetition, all the little hundreds of hairs making up a feather, the fine lines showing the growth of a sea shell or a snail, and the seeds inside the fruit. it's there all the time, the repetition, the same tiny feature in great, sometimes endless, impossible-to-count numbers. that kind of numbers i like. they are more...organic.
i might have stretched the word too far. find more interpretations of the word numbers via peggy of peggy fussel illustration. and then have a wonderful weekend.
Beautiful objects beautifully photographed. I love the connection of number. repetition, pattern and nature.
ReplyDeletei think i like your interpretation of weekword the best. i tend toward collecting nature's gifts, too and love looking at how they are constructed organically.
ReplyDeleteOh, I love beautiful things found in nature. They *are* math, aren't they? Perfect archimedean spirals, Fibonacci in the center of a sunflower, fractals --what seems to be random chaos is in fact perfectly organized. :) Beautiful images.
ReplyDeleteNumbers - take a look at Ninja's post, numbers must be in the air :^)
ReplyDeleteWonderful seedpod. I don't recall ever seeing one of those in person. What is is from?
love your interpretation. do you know olafur eliasson's work? i'm finding he has a similar approach to numbers in nature and creates the most amazing art works from it. like chandelier developed from fivefold symmetries... (i hated maths in school - but this kind of organic, playful approach makes me all wide-eyed!)
ReplyDeleteAlso not a numbers person... but am definitely a nature person. Repetitive shapes do make us want to count, don't they? Like plucking the petals from a daisy...
ReplyDeletei like these nature made numbers too. great interpretation.
ReplyDeleteoooo! Numbers scare me also! I guess I was too afraid to "confess" on my blog... love your interpretation of numbers! your photos are fabulous!
ReplyDeleteMathematics and nature are intertwined - so I do think your interpretation fits beautifully!
ReplyDeleteThese are simply beautiful photos. Very nice and you didn't stretch it too far at all. Lovely take on the word. Thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteisn't it interesting how numbers can soothe our minds in some ways, and make our heads spin in others?
ReplyDeleteI feel the same about numbers and endless-to-count numbers. Nice reflection and photos.
ReplyDeleteI don't think you've stretched it at all -- check this video out -- it's one of the most beautiful and awesome things I've ever seen about nature and math:
ReplyDeletehttp://blog.speakingoffaith.org/post/617552387/mathematics-in-sunflowers-shubha-bala-associate
amen, sis! that is definitely not a stretch. i was just reading something at our pediatrician's office-though don't ask me the name-about many many animals-and of course plants etc. being related to a specific set of numbers. as you can see, i am not that number oriented either... though i could draw you any of the pictures in that book.
ReplyDeletereally beautiful pictures. love the pod.
Nature, numbers, art, music, science...this good life!
ReplyDeletebeautiful interpretation! and nature - wow! I think nature organizes it self in secret organic numbers. You´ve got a view of the secret!
ReplyDeleteand, yes, give Your kids the camera! It´s so much fun. It gives me a new dimension of life seeing the world through the eye of my boy. I get to know him (and myself) a little better :)
superb series again!
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