Evolving Art Series: Shell Art (Article in Progress)

Evolving Art Series

Shell Art

                                                                    Dr Abe V Rotor

 

Author listens to the sound of Tamboli or Tambuyuk 

(Conch Shell Trumpet) at the former Museum of St. Paul

University QC 

I'm standing on the world's narrowest isthmus,

     among archives and fossils of history,

where I can hold the Pacific and the Atlantic

     oceans half the world apart and free;

I cross the time and distance barrier

     with these chroniclers singing to me

the ever unending roars of the tides,

     tides on the street, tides of the sea. 

Floral arrangement of bi-valve shells smoothened by constant

"grinding" at the seashore, surrounded by different shells 

to add variety to the presentation.   

These shells are arranged on a simulated background 

of a coral reef.  In nature these shells have their 

specific habitats and groupings into populations. 

 Pin cushion shell

  Conch shell

 

                          Fossil of a Giant Clam (Tridacna gigas)

Brain coral with attached shells, symbionts or transients 

Make-believe pearls of Green Mussel  

An artwork must be faithful to its educational thrust 

if used as teaching aid. Pearl-like marbles are actually 

stoppers of liquor bottles. ~