Gabriele Meyer

Statement

Over the past three years I have made linoleum prints of sea shells. Shells, both snails and bivalves, have mathematical properties. Snails embody spirals and bivalves have mirror symmetry. Both often exhibit patterns based on dilation, radial patterns, or can exhibit randomness.

Artworks

These are three snails, embodying spirals in 3 space. The tiger cowrie has random spots, the wentletrap for each turn has radial axes, and the cone snail is conical with Rule 30 type spots.

Both shells are snails and thus built as spirals. The chicoreus acculeatus has fractal like protrusions and the babylonea spirata as seen head on shows its spiral pattern with beautiful spotting.