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A spiral sculpture of ceramic posts depicting the seasons
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Here is a spiral showing one whole year. Click on the top of each post to see which month it represents. Can you find September?
More stuff about the Equinox sculpture
There are 7 sets of posts.
Each set represents a year so has 12 posts.
The posts are placed 1 metre apart in a spiral.
The spiral is based on the Fibonacci series.
You add 2 numbers together to make the next one.
1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21,34…..
Then draw a spiral using squares of those sizes.
Fibonacci Spirals are like Golden Spirals.
Lots of spirals like these occur in nature.
Each set represents a year so has 12 posts.
The posts are placed 1 metre apart in a spiral.
The spiral is based on the Fibonacci series.
You add 2 numbers together to make the next one.
1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21,34…..
Then draw a spiral using squares of those sizes.
Fibonacci Spirals are like Golden Spirals.
Lots of spirals like these occur in nature.
The posts form a spiral which has an Italian name. What is it?
Margharita
Fibonacci
Pavarotti
Why is the post on the right shorter than the one on the left?
The artists ran out of wood to make the pole
The artists felt the cylinders looked better that way
Summer daylight hours are longer than Winter ones
The scultpure is called Equinox. Where does the word Equinox come from?
A Medieval Oxfordshire horse fair; from the Latin equinus=to do with horses + OX=the postcode.
The Equinox is when day and night are the same length; from the Latin aequus=equal + nox=nighttime
A corruption of the Italian acqua=water + gnocchi, pasta cooked in water invented by Fibonacci
There are seven sets of posts. What do you think the seven represent?
The Seven Wonders of the World
Intervals in a scale
Shakespeare's Seven Ages of Man
What could the posts be used for?
Tell the time/track the path of the Sun
Hang your washing out to dry.
Tether a horse.
What does each set of twelve posts represent?
A semi-tone scale
The Twelve Days of Christmas
The months of a year.
Which of these things are made of clay/terracotta? (Terracotta comes from the Italian for cooked earth).
A frieze on Reading Town Hall showing the poets Shakespeare, Burns, Chaucer and Homer
The cylinders which are part of the Equinox sculpture
An air brick in Town Hall Square Reading
Why do we have seasons?
Because the Earth's distance from the Sun varies
Because the axis of rotation of the Earth is tilted
Because of changing light from the Moon
This quiz was created to accompany the Equinox Together sculpture exhibited beside the River Thames on Pangbourne Meadow, near Reading, RG8 7DA, UK
Gill Williamson, founder of the Whitchurch-on-Thames Art Café, Debbie Page and Louise Clark led community groups, schools, charities and individuals in creating clay cylinders arranged to represent the changing seasons.
