This 11 part geocaching series takes you around UT campus to explore free public art in the Landmarks collection! Parking is a little sparse in this area so consider biking or walking to this cache. Please do not touch the artwork. The cache is not hidden inside or on the art.
In his sculptural series The Archaeology of Art, Marc Quinn creates monumental forms from seashells. The conch for Spiral of the Galaxy is based on one in the British Natural History Museum collection. For Quinn’s work, the conch was scanned in three dimensions, then a mold was created and cast into bronze. The resulting figure is familiar in its proportion and surfaces, but strange because it no longer invites intimate handling. Its altered material and scale transform it into a solid, architectural form that occupies public space and affects the urban ecosystem.
Learn more about Spiral of the Galaxy here and don’t forget to find the other 10 caches in this art series find them here: https://landmarks.utexas.edu/blogs/go-geocaching-landmarks