daniela bertol
My art and design practice is inspired by geometry at different
scales, methodologies and media, including video, land and perfomance
art, sculpture and fashion. Mathematics has also been as a component
of a theory of form: a unification of dualisms in humankind and
nature, embodiment of mind constructions into phenomenological
experiences. 3D printed and laser cut sculptures are based on
three-dimensional symmetry, spirals and recursions, the subject of two
educational interactive and multimedia publications Regular Polyhedra
and the Star and Archimedean Solids
Recently I am working on the psychosomatic practice "Healing
Geometries" started from my doctoral research "Form Mind Body Space
Time - the Geometry of Human Movement."
The series "Phyllotaxis: Nature and Numbers" comprises images
generated by parametric variations of the divergence angle c. Such
angle is used Vogel’s formula used to create a computational model
of the sunflower head:
q = n ∗ 137.5◦, r= c√n,
In these formula n is the ordering number of a floret in the
sunflower head and q the angle between a reference direction and
the position vector of the nth floret in a polar coordinate system
originating at the center of the head. The divergence angle c in
the sunflower head is equal to the golden angle approximated to =
137.5°.
In the series c varies according to different increment generating
unexpected visual results as in the presented image "Phyllotaxis:
3-increment".
“Spiraling Tetrahedron” is a 3D printed scale models of the series “Spiraling Polyhedra” envisioned as public art project: functional sculptures of complex formal configurations shaped according to the symmetry of the five Platonic solids. The form is characterized by the mapping of helicoidal paths on a spherical regular tetrahedron; the path is a spiral in the orthogonal projection centered on a polyhedron vertex. The helicoidal shape centered on a vertex continues in other helices centred on the adjacent vertices creating double-end spiral sets, which resemble Euler (Cornu) spirals comprised of arc of splines in three-dimensional space.