Kama-Rupa and the Spiral Phyllotaxis of Plants
Be it ray or fusiform cells,
the celestial harmonica violently
pushes through every sun-fed
plant until its initials become
the spokes of a bicycle wheel.
We build bamboo towers now.
The inner bark yearns for
the circumference of the Godhead
as the dead heartwood always
nurses new life with its waters.
The columnar tropical palms
are continuously branching as if the sands
of Egypt were still filled with gods.
The silver linden and the red pine
grow pregnant with their crowns
when St Brigid lights another fire.
Spring is here! The machinery of light
is blinding next year’s needles
in their winter buds and fluted rings.
Hungry leaves are singing a rosette
into being; auxin is beginning
to practice Thanatos to initiate
a new life in the meristematic topography.
O the buzzing of bees; O the golden spiral
In botany, phyllotaxis or phyllotaxy is the arrangement of leaves on a plant stem (from Ancient Greek phllon "leaf" and táxis "arrangement") Phyllotactic spirals form a distinctive class of patterns in nature.
The term was coined by Charles Bonnet to describe the arrangement of leaves on a plant.
The pattern of leaves on a plant is ultimately controlled by the local depletion of the plant hormone auxin in certain areas of the meristem. Leaves become initiated in localized areas where auxin is absent.
https://www.differenttrainsgallery.com/artist-akio-hizume.html
Japanese architect Akio Hizume's main subjects for research are architecture, the form of music and quasi-periodic geometry based on the Golden Mean. He not only does research theory but also makes many original works practically.
Akio found many quasi-periodic structures and named them "Star Cages". He has built big Star Cages as geometrical sculptures using bamboo in Japan, Indonesia, Austria, Germany, U.S.A. and Switzerland.
