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Spiral Jetty is a work of land art created by American artist Robert Smithson in 1970 on the northeastern shore of Utah's Great Salt Lake. Built from basalt rock, earth, salt crystals, and water, it forms a large counterclockwise coil extending from the shoreline. Its appearance changes as lake leve...
Desert Breath is a land art installation located in the Eastern Sahara desert near El Gouna, Egypt, completed in March 1997 by the artist collective D.A.ST. Arteam (Danae Stratou, Alexandra Stratou, and Stella Konstantinidis). The work covers approximately 100,000 square meters and consists of a dou...
Broken Circle and Spiral Hill is a 1971 earthwork by American artist Robert Smithson, located in a sand quarry near Emmen in the Netherlands. It consists of two adjacent forms: a semicircular jetty enclosing a boulder in a body of water ('Broken Circle') and a conical mound carved with a spiral path...
LL Pegasi is a carbon-rich star within a prominent spiral nebula. This young, protoplanetary nebula formed due to continuous mass ejection from a binary star system. The resulting structure, characterized by distinct dust rings, offers astronomers a unique opportunity to study the processes of stell...
Ensaimada is a spiral-shaped sweet pastry from Mallorca in Spain's Balearic Islands. Its dough is rolled thin, enriched with pork lard, coiled, proofed, and baked to produce a light interior with layered strands, usually finished with powdered sugar. Documented on Mallorca for centuries, the pastry...
Pain aux raisins is a French viennoiserie made by spreading pastry cream and raisins over laminated yeast dough, rolling it into a cylinder, and cutting it into spiral slices before baking. The lamination creates buttery layers, while the custard and fruit remain distributed through the coil. It is...
Nodding Ladies' Tresses (Spiranthes cernua) is a terrestrial orchid native to North America, frequently found in moist meadows, prairies, and wetlands. The plant is distinguished by its dense, vertical spike of small white flowers that spiral around the stem, resembling a twisted braid. Blooming in...
The Graff Spiral Diamond Ring is a piece of fine jewelry produced by Graff Diamonds, a London-based luxury jewelry house. The design is characterized by a dynamic, coiling band that wraps around the finger, intended to showcase multiple cut diamonds in a continuous sculptural form. Graff is recogniz...
The Snail is a large geoglyph located in the Nazca Desert of southern Peru and is part of the broader Nazca Lines complex. The figure was created by removing the dark desert pebbles to expose the lighter ground beneath, forming a design that visually resembles a spiral or a snail shell. The Nazca Li...
Dilophus spiralis, also classified as Dictyota spiralis, is a brown alga of the family Dictyotaceae found in the Mediterranean Sea, distinguished by its spirally twisted fronds.
