TANGLED POLYHEDRA is a series of sculptures created as part of an artist residency at Camp V
I conceptualized and prototyped a sculptural installation for Camp V, a boutique venue near Naturita, Colorado, and collaborated with fellow computational artist Kirk Drogsvold to fabricate and install the three pieces.
The final design consists of 12 identical pieces that interlock and weave through each-other, creating a complex geometric structure that at first glance gives the appearance of being unconnected, impossibly holding its shape. The underlying structure is based on the dodecahedron and its dual platonic solid, the icosahedron. As duals, the vertices of one polyhedra correspond to the face centers of the other, so the cut pieces are arranged in a dodecahedron, but are welded together where they intersect along the icosahedron vertices.
I used Rhino 3D and Grasshopper software to construct and visualize this geometry and create flat files for plasma cutting out of steel. The final assembly is a bit of a brain teaser, and does involve one piece that needs to be cut in half and re-welded in order to complete the knot-like structure.
