Junk Geode III : Icosahedron

 

Poster board, metalized polyester film, wax.

The icosahedron, one of the five Platonic solids, it is a regular polyhedron with 20 equilateral triangular faces. Plato conceptualized the icosahedron as the atomic form of water, and within his philosophy it was an example of an enduring form, a manifestation of the eternal.

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Within the Cerebral Cortex III

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

 

Rhombus (◊).

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Captured here is a unique interaction with an ordinary unit of matter. The material moves from its ordered state of uniformity into a dynamic folded space with a distressed static crackle. The noise of this material folding, and the faint sound of air escaping through the valve is produced as a result of its changing state. The light displayed off the broken surface radiates against the vacuum black, as a distinct region, a field of refraction.

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Within the Cerebral Cortex II

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

These self-replicating patterns of kaleidoscopic hexagonal form tessellate perfectly, and their construction can potentially be extended infinitely. When arranged as a vertical panel, an individual elongated hexagon appears like an illuminated stained glass window in the Perpendicular Gothic style. These dynamic forms illustrate an idea of vision from the mind's eye, the windows of the cerebral cortex, or the stained glass of the cerebral cathedral.

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Within the Cerebral Cortex

 

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


Initially intended to be used as a scientific tool, the kaleidoscope (observer of beautiful forms) permits dynamic vision. The apparatus, a cylinder of mirrors, transmutes asymmetric reality into a mathematical utopia of symmetrically flowering structures. In this way we simulate the view of the world as seen through the compound eyes of insects, which are typically hexagonal in cross section.
I am interested in this device for its ability to alter that which is seen, to look, to examine and to facilitate an expansion of complexity.

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Liquid-Crystal: Mesophase

Digital Vector Image.


Liquid crystals are a state of matter (phase) that have properties between those of a conventional liquid and those of a solid crystal. Shown here, the phase transition (liquid/solid) is occurring. A sample of the material was placed between two crossed polarizers; the sample was then heated and cooled. The crystal and liquid crystal phases will both polarize the light in a uniform way, leading to brightness and color gradients.

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Synthetic Progeny: Iamond Composition