Sunday, April 7, 2024

Evolving Art Series: Shell Art

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. ~

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