Kris Empting-Obenland

Gustav Klimt, my favourite Austrian painter, would have turned 101 this year (which is a prime btw...). In his honour I played with triangles featuring my interpretation of his characteristic patterns and colours. Klimt is using all sorts of geometric shapes in his work. Different types of triangles, circles, squares, rectangles, straight and curved lines. His shapes are never executed in a geometrically accurate way though. I took up this effect by using seed beads for my necklace instead of cylinder beeds which gives the piece a textile-like look and the vivid texture of Klimt's paintings. So this seems to perfectly span the bridge between math and art....

Equilateral triangles wish to be grouped by 6 to be able to lie flat in circles. Assembling only 5 of them makes nice little domes that add more texture to the topology. This cuff is made from 15 domes creating interesting negative spaces and a light weight and vivid structure.

A ribbon of black and white triangles forms an "endless" spiral. That's the basic construction of this bracelet. The gaps between the spiral's loops are closed with additional pairs of golden triangles.