Hans Kuiper & Walt van Ballegooijen
Hans Kuiper and Walt van Ballegooijen created in cooperation this piece of art with the ‘hidden' faces of Gödel, Escher and Bach. We were inspired by the cover of Douglas Hofstadter’s book “Gödel, Escher Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid”. It shows an object, which projections show the three first letters of their names: a G, an E and a B. Our object shows their faces!
Our object is the result of the synthesis of two completely
different Minimal Art techniques applied in a new type of Math
Art.
The combined techniques are Minimal Art Objects and Optical
Minimal Art Graphics.
The Minimal Art Object is based on the principles of a 16x16 Latin
square. The object consists of 256 connected cubelets.
The faces are created by applying the technique of Optical Minimal
Art Graphics: reducing colours, in this case grey colours are
reduced to black and white.
The black colour is represented by the black structure, the white
colour is the background which varies because of the shape of the
holes in the cubes.