“The present determines the future, but the approximate present does not approximately determine the future…”

 

Complex and unpredictable results occur in systems that are sensitive to small changes in their initial conditions. Such systems are known as chaotic systems. Although chaotic systems appear to be random, they are not. Beneath the random behavior patterns emerge, suggesting, if not always revealing, order. Such pattern is The Golden Spiral, first discovered by Phythagoras, which is derived from the golden rectangle, a unique rectangle which has the golden ratio - phi.

 

The Golden Ratio is a universal law in which is contained the ground-principle of all formative striving for beauty and completeness in the realms of both nature and art, and which permeates, as a paramount spiritual ideal, all structures, forms and proportions, whether cosmic or individual, organic or inorganic, acoustic or optical.

 

If you look at flowers or plants, you see how the leaves or petals are disposed to each other at a constant angle equal to about 137°. It is the golden angle, namely the angle that is in a "golden ratio" with the angle equal to 360°.

 

Chaos is order…

And this neatly ordered chaos burning and shining, translated into flowers of its own, can be examined during the Secret Places Festival...