Roger Ferragallo
(California/USA)





   
  The Muon Enigma by Roger Ferragallo, 2009
  17.75" x 23.75", Lightjet print  
 
 
  Spiral Choreography in the Biocosmos by Roger Ferragallo, 2009, 17.75" x 23.75", Lightjet print
 
 
  Saturnalia Hexagonus by Roger Ferragallo, 2009
  17.75" x 23.75", Lightjet print



ARTIST STATEMENT

In Muon Enigma, muons come from high energy cosmic rays crashing down on earth and into each other from all directions; 600 extremely high energy particles pass through the atmosphere and through our bodies every minute.

Spiral Choreography in the Biocosmos was inspired by a 1914 book classic, "The Curves Of Life" by Theodore A. Cook, and caused me in 1950 to become an avid student of archetypical spirals, coils and helical forms found in all spatial domains in the universe--from atomic to the galactic. I explore this fundamental theme metaphorically in this work.

In Saturnalia Hexagonus, I contemplate the aesthetics of hexagonal geometries in nature but there exists a huge mystery in the solar system:  Why does Saturn display on its north pole a sharply defined rotating hexagon some 25,000 kilometers across, big enough to contain four Earths? (Discovered by Voyager 1 in 1980 and documented again by a Cassini craft in 2006, 26-years later)

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