Prairie Spiral
2006
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Sioux Falls, South Dakota
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Abstract
A floor mosaic in the Humanities Concourse at Augustana that draws on the spiral seed patterns of prairie flowers. The spirals follow the Fibonacci sequence and honor creative scholarship across the liberal arts.
Narrative
The Prairie Spiral mosaic design is based on the spiraling seed patterns found in prairie flowers and pine cone petals in the South Dakota landscape. These spirals correspond to the Fibonacci sequence — long employed by artists, musicians, theologians, mathematicians, architects, and scientists — and are intended to celebrate the significance of creative scholarly studies and their contribution to a liberal arts campus curriculum.
The 400-square-foot, twelve-color, 1,600-piece ceramic porcelain floor mosaic resides in the atrium of the Humanities Concourse at Augustana University in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
