The spiral is one of the earliest symbols used by humans, found in cave paintings and petroglyphs, and is thought by some researchers to have been inspired by shamanic rituals and hallucinogenic experiences.

The spiral is found in our mathematics via the golden ratio, and in our aesthetics via the Fibonacci Spiral, aka the Golden Spiral. Spirals are found throughout the natural world, from the shape of our galaxy, to hurricane storms in our atmosphere, to seashells in the oceans.

Spirals are also used to conceptualize entropy, spiraling out of control, the downward spiral from order into chaos. Each of these works represents this form of spiral, with varying degrees of chaos versus order, a formerly-cohesive group throwing off parts of itself due to overwhelming centrifugal force.
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Uses p5js (LGPL-2.1). Color palettes are inspired by the paintings of Mondrian, Rafael, Van Gogh, Munch, O'Keefe, and Magritte.