The messages buried within the piece are simultaneously earthly and arcane. Those with a keen mathematical eye might notice how the columns have been positioned in height and distance (as well as in weight) to form a Fibonacci sequence – a succession of numbers where the next number is found by adding the two numbers that come before it. The Fibonacci sequence has long existed; first coming into use in ancient Indian mathematics and playing a part in the structure of the Sanskrit Vedas.Over millennia, mathematicians, artists, poets, architects, philosophers, psychologists, biologists and computer nerds have employed the Fibonacci sequence, and its cousin the Golden Ratio, to ponder the structure of our world. It is maths at its most elegant. Fibonacci shows up all through the human experience and the natural world – in the way petals grow, the branching of trees, the uncurling of a fern or the arrangement of a pinecone and even in the ancestral code of the honeybee and the human X chromosome. We unknowingly encounter the Fibonacci sequence every day.The enormous columns also form an ellipse, which according to Rogers: “alludes to the trajectories of the planets moving around the sun. It is a vision of time and space and the interconnectedness of humanity.” The tallest column in the centre of the ellipse measures ten metres high and is topped with 23-carat gold to reflect the setting sun during the Winter Solstice. While a casual passer-by might fail to notice the astronomical and mathematical beauty of the sculpture, there are very few who are not moved but its ethereal beauty.
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