Metamorphosis Art Gallery

08/28/2026

This beautiful photo by Denise Gunter was printed on metal that gives it even more depth.

08/27/2026

Welcoming Lili Zhu and her beautiful art to our family of artists at Metamorphosis Galley, Milton, GA

08/16/2026

Around 1490, Leonardo da Vinci picked up a pen and drew one of the most famous images in the history of human thought. Not to illustrate anatomy. Not merely to make art. But to demonstrate something he believed was geometrically true about the human body and its relationship to the universe. 📐✨ The Vitruvian Man shows a single human figure inscribed simultaneously within both a perfect circle and a perfect square, demonstrating that the proportions of the human body can bridge both fundamental geometric forms at once.

Leonardo based the drawing on the writings of the ancient Roman architect Vitruvius, who had proposed that the ideal human body, with arms and legs extended, could be inscribed within both a circle centered on the navel and a square, and that these proportions were the foundation of all architectural harmony. Leonardo worked alongside mathematician Luca Pacioli, who was developing his famous treatise on the golden ratio, a mathematical proportion he called the divine proportion and believed was encoded throughout nature. Whether the Vitruvian Man directly encodes the golden ratio is debated by scholars, but what is clear is that Leonardo was deeply interested in the idea that the human form embodies the same mathematical relationships found in architecture, nature, and the cosmos. The drawing became one of the most reproduced images in human history precisely because it touches something people feel to be true even before they can articulate it. 🌀

The human body inscribed between a circle representing the heavens and a square representing the earth is not just a geometric exercise. It is a philosophical statement: that the human being exists at the intersection of the mathematical and the physical, the infinite and the finite, the cosmic and the earthly. Follow along for more on sacred geometry, ancient wisdom, and the hidden mathematics woven into human existence. 💛

08/16/2026

Feel the healing power of art! 🌈 Metamorphosis Art Gallery
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08/08/2026

I love using it in my art! 🥰

There is a sequence of numbers so deeply embedded in the structure of nature that once you see it, you cannot unsee it. 🌀✨ It is called the Fibonacci sequence: 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, each number the sum of the two before it. As the numbers grow, the ratio between consecutive terms converges toward 1.618, the golden ratio.

Sunflower seed heads arrange their spirals in Fibonacci pairs, most commonly 34 spirals in one direction and 55 in the other, a configuration that allows the maximum number of seeds to pack into the available space with extraordinary efficiency. Pinecones show the same pattern with 8 spirals one way and 13 the other. Leaf arrangements on plant stems follow the golden angle derived from this ratio, optimizing exposure to sunlight. The Milky Way itself has four major spiral arms each following the golden angle of the Fibonacci sequence. The same logarithmic spiral appears in shells, hurricanes viewed from space, and the arrangement of petals across thousands of flower species. 🌿
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What makes this pattern genuinely extraordinary is not just that it appears everywhere, but why. It appears because it represents the most mathematically efficient way for things to grow, pack, and expand under physical constraints. Nature did not design it. Nature discovered it, independently, at every scale, in every domain, across billions of years. And the proportions of the human body, the branching of your lung tissue, the spiral of the cochlea in your inner ear, all reflect the same ratio. Follow along for more on the hidden mathematics woven into the fabric of life. 💛

07/31/2026

Firoozeh Bowden with acrylic painting "Melting Icecaps" . On exhibit at Metamorphosis Gallery in Crabapple market, Milton, GA
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07/30/2026