Swirling Vortex
by Carla Parris
Title
Swirling Vortex
Artist
Carla Parris
Medium
Photograph - Digital Photograph
Description
SWIRLING VORTEX is a natural abstract digital photograph by Carla Parris.
A vortex is a swirling, whirling, spiraling mass of water or air that sucks everything around it into its deep, dark center.
This natural abstract, which looks like my concept of a black hole in outer space, is actually a photograph of a cabbage like succulent which was growing in a flower bed in the delightful, quaint coastal town of Cambria, California.
This brightly colored image has a palette of chartreuse green and purple, with maroon accents on the tips of the leaves of the succulent. Black vignetting helps draw the eye to the mysterious center of the succulent, whose leaves (or should I say petals?) are arranged in a Fibonacci numbers spiral pattern.
I am not an expert on Fibonacci number patterns in nature, but pineapples and tapered pine cones actually have two spirals, going in opposite directions, based on these intriguing mathematical sequences, and I think this succulent does, as well.
If you look carefully, you will see not one, but two, vortices, as well as a trio of rosettes around the edge of the feature spiral.
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August 26th, 2015
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