From chaos to order | Rafael Araujo | TEDxHangzhouSalon

“I mean I didn’t copy nature, I do geometry and with geometry I do something that resembles the nature, they really are not shells in the biological sense, but in geometrical sense, you can call them shells, but they are calculations, they are equations, they are only numbers, and that's in the space, but I called them of course shells.” “And here we see this shell which I can say that I invented geometrically but a biologist told me that it has a name and it is called MUREX” As an autodidact in geometry and the use of the Golden Ratio, Rafael's work is the outcome of years of persistence, trial an error upon the theme of tridimensional representation of the world and the “platonic” search of the illusion of the “Truth”, by means of the development of structures which could perfectly be described as illustrated equations of natural subjects: shells, butterflies’ spirals, etc he does all by hand, on his drawing board with classical architectural drawing tools (a compass, protractor, squ