This sculpture, and the pattern it projects, is a translation from mathematical abstraction to visible form. It shows a specific measured slice of five-dimensional geometry down-shifted to three-dimensions. The painted pattern encodes certain mathematical rules once considered essential to its construction.
It is built from a single repeating diamond shape cut in colored glass. Each tile was hand-painted, kiln-fired and assembled with copper, lead and tin using traditional stained glass techniques. The tiles' measurements are in the golden proportion, a special ratio of numbers that occur frequently in the geometry of nature.
The sculpture's crystalline form corresponds to X-ray diffraction photographs of rare materials called quasicrystals that do not conform to Euclid's classical rules of symmetry. Quasicrystals were discovered in 1982 and have since been found in the molecular structure of certain meteorites.
Handpainted glass, kiln-fired; assembled with copper, lead and tin solder.
This sculpture, and the pattern it projects, is a translation from mathematical abstraction to visible form. It shows a specific measured slice of five-dimensional geometry down-shifted to three-dimensions. The painted pattern encodes certain mathematical rules once considered essential to its construction.
It is built from a single repeating diamond shape cut in colored glass. Each tile was hand-painted, kiln-fired and assembled with copper, lead and tin using traditional stained glass techniques. The tiles' measurements are in the golden proportion, a special ratio of numbers that occur frequently in the geometry of nature.
The sculpture's crystalline form corresponds to X-ray diffraction photographs of rare materials called quasicrystals that do not conform to Euclid's classical rules of symmetry. Quasicrystals were discovered in 1982 and have since been found in the molecular structure of certain meteorites.
Handpainted glass, kiln-fired; assembled with copper, lead and tin solder.
This sculpture, and the pattern it projects, is a translation from mathematical abstraction to visible form. It shows a specific measured slice of five-dimensional geometry down-shifted to three-dimensions. The painted pattern encodes certain mathematical rules once considered essential to its construction.
It is built from a single repeating diamond shape cut in colored glass. Each tile was hand-painted, kiln-fired and assembled with copper, lead and tin using traditional stained glass techniques. The tiles' measurements are in the golden proportion, a special ratio of numbers that occur frequently in the geometry of nature.
The sculpture's crystalline form corresponds to X-ray diffraction photographs of rare materials called quasicrystals that do not conform to Euclid's classical rules of symmetry. Quasicrystals were discovered in 1982 and have since been found in the molecular structure of certain meteorites.
Handpainted glass, kiln-fired; assembled with copper, lead and tin solder.
This sculpture, and the pattern it projects, is a translation from mathematical abstraction to visible form. It shows a specific measured slice of five-dimensional geometry down-shifted to three-dimensions. The painted pattern encodes certain mathematical rules once considered essential to its construction.
It is built from a single repeating diamond shape cut in colored glass. Each tile was hand-painted, kiln-fired and assembled with copper, lead and tin using traditional stained glass techniques. The tiles' measurements are in the golden proportion, a special ratio of numbers that occur frequently in the geometry of nature.
The sculpture's crystalline form corresponds to X-ray diffraction photographs of rare materials called quasicrystals that do not conform to Euclid's classical rules of symmetry. Quasicrystals were discovered in 1982 and have since been found in the molecular structure of certain meteorites.
Handpainted glass, kiln-fired; assembled with copper, lead and tin solder.
This sculpture, and the pattern it projects, is a translation from mathematical abstraction to visible form. It shows a specific measured slice of five-dimensional geometry down-shifted to three-dimensions. The painted pattern encodes certain mathematical rules once considered essential to its construction.
It is built from a single repeating diamond shape cut in colored glass. Each tile was hand-painted, kiln-fired and assembled with copper, lead and tin using traditional stained glass techniques. The tiles' measurements are in the golden proportion, a special ratio of numbers that occur frequently in the geometry of nature.
The sculpture's crystalline form corresponds to X-ray diffraction photographs of rare materials called quasicrystals that do not conform to Euclid's classical rules of symmetry. Quasicrystals were discovered in 1982 and have since been found in the molecular structure of certain meteorites.
Handpainted glass, kiln-fired; assembled with copper, lead and tin solder.