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Description
The layout of this piece uses multiple aspects of the Fibonacci sequence and by extension, Phi, the golden ratio:

A) Fibonacci or Golden Spiral

B) Fibonacci circles
These circles have radii measurements equalling to the Fibonacci numbers i.e. 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21 (in cm). This gives the diameters of the circles a ratio converging to Phi (~1.618034...) to each other.

C) Golden Rectangle
The border between the "inside" of the piece (representing reason/the knowable) and the "outside" (representing the unknowable/the infinite) is a golden rectangle i.e. a rectangle with sides in a ratio of a:a+b (shown above). The actual measurements in the original are a=21 and b=13, giving a ratio of 21:34.
Famously this ratio is described as the measurements of the Ark of the Covenant in Exodus 27:1: "...build an altar of acacia wood, which should be square, five cubits long, five cubits wide, and three cubits high."

D) Fibonacci point
The two strands of DNA intersect at the Fibonacci point i.e. the vanishing point of the golden spiral.

Description
The layout of this piece uses multiple aspects of the Fibonacci sequence and by extension, Phi, the golden ratio:

A) Fibonacci or Golden Spiral

B) Fibonacci circles
These circles have radii measurements equalling to the Fibonacci numbers i.e. 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21 (in cm). This gives the diameters of the circles a ratio converging to Phi (~1.618034...) to each other.

C) Golden Rectangle
The border between the "inside" of the piece (representing reason/the knowable) and the "outside" (representing the unknowable/the infinite) is a golden rectangle i.e. a rectangle with sides in a ratio of a:a+b (shown above). The actual measurements in the original are a=21 and b=13, giving a ratio of 21:34.
Famously this ratio is described as the measurements of the Ark of the Covenant in Exodus 27:1: "...build an altar of acacia wood, which should be square, five cubits long, five cubits wide, and three cubits high."

D) Fibonacci point
The two strands of DNA intersect at the Fibonacci point i.e. the vanishing point of the golden spiral.