Irene Rousseau
My story began decades ago. It is about my passion to understand structures and patterns found in the seen and invisible world. The insights I have gained underlie the conceptual framework for the body of my work. As an artist, I aim to bridge the disciplines of art and mathematics and metaphorically represent the concepts to create the art.
The 3D hyperbolic paper sculpture is a disc composed of planes,
each suggests negative curvature and represents the concept of
infinite smallness contained within the bounding edge. Hyperbolic
geometry can be represented as the points in a circular disc with
hyperbolic distance defined. A hyperbolic plane has infinite
structures within boundaries.
In my hyperbolic paper sculpture repeating patterns which decrease
in size at the bounding edge metaphorically represent infinity.
Symmetry is a transformation that preserves the distance as shown
on the surface tiling patterns of the sculpture. The cut out areas
reveal and hide a layer beneath the top surface of the sculpture.
It is an intellectual game of hide and seek in a negative
curvature.