Looking through old photographs of my holiday for inspiration, I came across these photographs that I had took of a sea turtle in an Aquarium and noticed how detailed their skin and shell are. The shapes found on the turtle’s skin and shell reminds me of shattered glass, it creates unique shapes for every crack. As the shell is like a shield, if I was to experiment with this shape and structure, I would like to work with a hardened material or the strongest paper card that I can find to represent the shell being protected and to protect. Some turtle shells can survive fossilisation showing how strong their shells are. Turtle shells are also sometimes used for identification in classifying different species. In nature lies beautiful design, ordered creation, all created for a specific purpose, I want my work to represent ordered design and structure in Nature and Manmade.
Seashells
are a hard protective layer that once belonged to an animal that lives in the
sea. Empty seashells are ordinarily found washed up on beaches, the shells are
normally empty because the animal living inside either has died and has been
eaten or has rotted away. The term seashell usually refers to the exoskeleton
left behind from animals without vertebrate. Seashells vary in sizes, shape,
structure and colour, which make them an interesting natural ordered form to
look at.
Beehives
are naturally occurring structures, consisting of a densely packed cluster of
hexagonal cells that is made entirely from beeswax, called a honeycomb. The
cells are used to store food such as honey and pollen. In addition, more
importantly the honeycomb is used to house the offspring. The word store brings
many ideas to mind, especially when working with this hexagon shape.
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