Gabriele Meyer

Statement

I like sea shells, linoprinting and crocheting hyperbolic surfaces. What attracts me are smooth curves and patterns. When I studied mathematics at the university I realized that the patterns and smooth forms are generated by mathematical phenomena. It makes me happy to combine what I did for a living, namely teaching math, with the artistic beauty mathematics generates in nature.

Artworks

The trophon geversianus viewed from the top shows a zig zag spiral. This is very unusual for snails and very beautiful. The barnea truncata or mud piddock has growth lines that model almost everywhere smooth curves with an area of discontinuity in the middle and several points where the one-sided derivatives do not agree.

The chicoreus acculeatus with its winding lines models fractal curves. The cypraeovula is a cowrie and its spots appear to be random. If you cut it through the middle, you can see the spiral structure, which is not very visible from the outside.