mostly art and music
an exploration of partial-dimensional geometries My work is on display through March 26 at The Emporium Gallery in downtown Knoxville. Here is a brief explanation of the show: Knots are continuous lines twisted in such a way to give the illusion of lines overlapping in the same plane. Using a formalized system of knot creation, …
the quintessential knot
three braided knots as a listing band
Perfectly symmetrical listing bands are difficult to display because of one of those things that bring us all down, like gravity. But, if you could slice one (or really anything that’s hard to balance) up, you could stack the slices and create the illusion of a dimensional solid. The video explains a lot: The first …
deconstructed listing band segment
how to create a piece of art that you can see from all angles?
isolated polyhedra faces
regular polyhedra tiled with knot patterns
copper knot inlaid in wood
You have to cheat a little to give the illusion of self-intersecting lines made out of a single piece of paper….