Mircea Draghicescu
I'm interested finding new ways to build modular geometric sculptures
by connecting copies of some simple shape.
Although each object is unique, my goal is to find general elements
(shapes, connection mechanisms) that can be used to create many
similar sculptures.
This artwork is based on the observation that any polyhedron edge
is connected to exactly 4 other edges (by definition, two edges
are connected if they share both a face and a vertex).
The flexible pieces with 4 connection points, viewed as polyhedron
edges, can thus model any polyhedron.
Multi-layer sculptures can be created by the addition of a fifth
connection point at the center of each piece which allows
connections between layers. Each new layer models the
rectification of the polyhedron modeled by the previous layer and
has twice as many pieces.
This work has four layers corresponding to a tetrahedron,
octahedron, cuboctahedron, and rhombicuboctahedron, respectively;
it has 6+12+24+48=90 cross-shaped pieces and 96 (red) disks.