The origin of symmetry
First of all, the title is from a Muse album, because it was the first artsy-fartsy thing that popped in my small mind when starting to think about symmetry. The topic came to me when we were talking about a design at the office and I was commenting a piece of work that – in my opinion, lacked symmetry. The answer I got was that I had an engineer-style approach to art, everything doesn’t have to be symmetrical.
I’ve done quite a bit of graphical design in my life and surprisingly I’m still doing it, but that sentence got me thinking. It’s true that I have an engineer’s heart: where people see design, I see usability. Where people see colors, I see printing them and how they react to light and what surface they will be printed on. But symmetry per se is everywhere and that’s why we are looking for symmetry everywhere we look. If we’re looking for a mate, we usually go for the more symmetrical faces or bodies – asymmetry usually depicts deformations or some kind of problems, whether we’re talking about a face or a sunflower.
I did some research on symmetry, and like a drop of water is perfectly round, symmetry is all around us and I do have to admit, that I like symmetry in my art as well. Now symmetry does not mean geometry, but it gives a set of rules on what looks good. Just like it’s supposed to be.
To those who are thinking what the image is, it is a photo of a hollycock pollen particle. Perfectly spherical and symmetric.
Parts of music are symmetrical. Everything is, from a point of view. Wonderful.
np: Feeling Good from the album “Origin Of Symmetry” by Muse
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