Sentences with phrase «nautilus shells»

Clifford will exhibit works in oil, pastel, resin, collage, and «fusion glass» with a theme of Nautilus Shells and Hydrangeas.The gallery is located at 4 North Main St, Southampton, NY 11968.

4 NORTH MAIN GALLERY — «Judy Clifford: Collecting Nautilus Shells» has an Opening Reception on Saturday from 6 to 8 p.m..

The Berlin - based, Auckland - born Zac Langdon - Pole offers an unusual interpretation of passports — nine small sculptures made of paper nautilus shells.

THE PASTON TREASURE: MICROCOSM OF THE KNOWN WORLD The 17th - century Paston Treasure, commissioned by a wealthy Norfolk family to immortalize its collection of treasures from musical instruments and American tobacco to luxuriously gold - mounted nautilus shells, is shown on this side of the pond for the first time, along with more than a hundred apropos precious objects — some of them also from the Pastons.

The more I've learned over the years, the more I've come to realize that different systems of thought behave like the golden ratio found in nautilus shells.

The famous Fibonacci sequence, a series of numbers in which each is the sum of the preceding two (1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8,...), shows up everywhere in nature — in nautilus shells, in pinecones, and now in the structure of cacti.

3 minutes: Stare at a picture of a snowflake Or a nautilus shell, fern branch, or lightening strike.

Place your spine into a slight extension to elongate your belly muscles, inhale, and then start rolling the roller toward you while rounding your spine into flexion in the shape of a nautilus shell.

This two - part piece showcases a coiled - wire link that resembles an eye anchored by a trio of drops: a wavy triangle, a textured organically shaped cutout, and a bezel - set nautilus shell.

\» A heavy teardrop hangs on one strand, while the other showcases a trio of pieces: a wavy triangle, a textured organically shaped cutout, and a bezel - set nautilus shell.

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The nautilus shell is nature's Fibonacci sequence.

In a garden where a custom - made billiard table adorns the green lawn, under the benevolent eye of a large Buddha, an outside bathroom in the shape of a nautilus shell completes the setting.

Among the marvels was a seventeenth - century nautilus shell, cleverly transformed by a German goldsmith to resemble a snail, with the painted silver figure of a Moor — perhaps a personification of Africa — whimsically riding on top (Fig. 4).

Finally, in «Caminos» and «Untitled (From Love Mind)» the human image is broken up or covered by geometric, repeating forms, reminiscent of the logical structures found in a fractal, a flower head or a nautilus shell.

The New Orleans sculpture, which Thomas titled «History of Conquest,» is based on «Snail with Nautilus Shell,» a delicate 8 - by -10-inch piece of art that was created in 1630 from a nautilus shell and gilded silver by German artist Jeremias Ritter.

Inspired by the logarithmic spiral of a nautilus shell, this graceful example of organic architecture imparts a sense of peaceful harmony.

I liked the white coral mounted on lucite and continued that feel with this nautilus shell.

Not exact matches

This spiral fossil comes from the shell of an ammonite, an extinct animal related to a modern nautilus.

They bore shells that often resembled those of nautiluses, which rapidly evolved into hundreds of different shapes, ornamented with undulations and bumps.

Nautiluses also have muscles attached to the shell, which squeeze water out in a jet that propels the animal along.

Nautiluses do not make good eating — you have to boil them for hours — but their shells are highly prized.

Families will also not want to miss the jet - propelled, gas - fuelled prehistoric nautilus, a primitive octopus in a spiral shell, the cuttlefish, a captivating type of mollusc which can change colour to give itself the perfect camouflage against any background, or the teeny tiny Atlantic Long Arm Octopus, a small sea creature with arms longer than its 90 millimetre body!

Here is a look at some of the fossil types Mary Anning discovers in Remarkable Creatures: Ammonites are distant relatives of modern - day cephalopods such as octopus, squid, or chambered nautilus, which they most resemble because of their whorled shell.

Nearby, a woman leading a well - groomed toy poodle on a leash talked with a friend about the statue's different patinas, which give the curve of the nautilus» shell a glossy, almost mirror - like look, while an intricate top ridge is detailed like an ornate brocade that goes underneath the boy and heads toward the creature's antennae.

One of the highlights of the show was the double sculpture Perfect Relationship (2011): a pair of graceful bronze hands rising from two nautilus fossils, shells that spiral in the proportions of the golden ratio and here symbolise the perfection of soul mates in love.