Three-Phase Cylinder I & II Sculpture

Three-Phase Cylinder I & II are complementary sine-based shapes, cut from the same 360-sheet block of 100 Micron Clear Film. This work takes as its departure point the ancient concept of the conic section. The origin of conic sections is unknown - the earliest reference we have is in the work of Apollonius of Perga around 200BC. Traditionally, Apollonius and the spate of mathematicians who followed in his footsteps over the centuries, used a cone sliced by a plane to define the circle, ellipse, parabola and hyperbola. Three-Phase Cylinder departs from the reductivist approach used to isolate these regular shapes and instead flirts with the methodology itself, letting a whimsical curling plane (mathematically defined by oscillating trigonometric functions) intersect three regular cylinders to produce a mathematically inutile set of shapes. The work does not deny reductivism, however. It uses it aimlessly and expressively to play within its rigid framework. It introduces colour into the work, shifting synchronously with the equations of the the sculptural shape, adding another slight and subtle element of artistic freedom within the rigid constraints of the work's underlying modus operandi. By allowing the piece a very limited amount of play and thus containing the grey area between mathematics and art, the work becomes a sort of visual bridge between the two.

Sculpture:Plastic on Plastic

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:11 W x 8.3 H x 1.8 D in

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