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Two unknots are arranged vertically above a charred wood base. The shape of the metal (painted aluminum) makes self-supporting convex and concave arrangements possible.
An unknot is a simple, closed loop. This particular one has sharp angles, but it still unfolds to something equivalent to a circle.
My interest in the unknot relates to the rules you have to follow to make a knot diagram. A branching path presents a problem when trying to represent the over- / under-lapping of crossing paths: what happens when a path branches? Turning a path into an unknot by using a copy of itself as negative space centered in the branching path removes this problem.
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The charred wood of the base resembles embers in light, and glows in the absence of light.
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