Wi†ch Hat Geode

Poster board and spun sugar.

The witch hat geode is a continuation of my Junk Geode series, that mimics these geological forms with found materials. The shell is an octagonal pyramid that holds a crystal (sugar) interior. The spun sugar is exposed, and over time, will continue to contract and solidify.

©ADG2013

Proof by exhaustion •

Irregular table tennis balls.

When stacking spheres, there are two regular lattices that achieve the highest density. They differ in how the sheets are stacked upon one another, and are called face-centered cubic, and hexagonal close-packed. These formations have been used in models to describe the atomic arrangements of crystal structures. In many cases the atoms of a crystal pack together as tightly as possible.


                                               •                                               •
                                              ••                                               ••
                                             •••                                               •••
                                            ••••                                               ••••


I am interested in the way these mathematical objects coalesce. The repetition of spheres, creating volumes, invisible polyhedrons, with straight lines from curves.


©ADG2013

Hallucinations of the Primary Visual Cortex II

Watercolour, pencil and ink on watercolour paper, with digital reflection.

The building blocks of life, four basic elements (substances that are made of only one type of atom) from which almost all life forms on Earth are primarily made up of are hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, and carbon.

The elements of my work are points, lines, triangles and hexagons.

When two or more atoms join together through chemical or ionic bonding, they make up a new molecule. Elements can combine together in many different ways to form thousands of different compounds.

This hallucination is generated through systematic procedures I have discovered in my investigation into the limits of these elements.

©ADG2013