“Emptiness manifests Form and Form manifests Emptiness”
Budist Proverb

Form

Everything existing in our physical world, which one can name or describe, has a particular marked Form. One can also establish, we can’t describe or name anything that has no proper Form.

By Form we recognize and distinguish the existing appearances of the material world.
We can distinguish between Man-Made forms and Organic, Natural Forms, where obviously the later one has a tremendous influence and impact on the first one.

One indicates something as natural, with a natural form: when no human influence occurs. Something that was or is not changed from its original condition. We recognize shapes, which are more roundabout, curved in its form as organic.

We talk here about organic form, which is in its source found in nature, which contains natural substance, as flowers, leaves, seeds, bones, animals and so on. Organic form is three-dimensional.

Organic shapes, organic patterns are free form, variable and appear in the natural world as we can observe as well in the sky, the ocean, the fire, in the grain of wood or marble.   


On the other hand, in man- made forms; shapes are based on math principles like circle, triangle, square, are geometric design. Geometric Form is one-dimensional. It is in general found and applicated in architecture, technology, industry.
Geometrical forms are pure mathematical objects. They have perfect uniform measurements; they are constructed by people. It is not a natural form.

As human applies geometry for building things, nature does it as well.
There are so many geometric shapes found in nature, starting from the beehives, sunflower spirals, snowflake crystals, seashells and so. With the difference, that we, human beings by observation of natural appearance, through reflection about the different forms and shapes and patterns, we develop certain principals based on math and geometry to give it for us an understandable structure and logic.
But we can’t really explain how nature works it out.


Over time, in many different independent cultures and religious conviction, particular shapes, symbols and patterns were evident as in architecture, art forms, and spiritual teachings.


These patterns signal an identification

with those repetitional geometrical shapes and forms found in nature. They build a kind of basic building cell block out of which increasingly complex natural patterns arise.

Even our common daily communication system, the letters, are shapes. The origine of our today patterns of writing were basic image patterns, particular symbolic forms which turned later in signs of sounds.