Gabriele Meyer
I like to crochet hyperbolic surfaces, shapes with waves. These can be
lamps or other decorative hanging sculptures.
In the past year, I focused on making white lamps with undulating wavy
layers around the outside.These layers are actually just one spiraling
surface, but they look as if they were individual parallel fibers.
Art lives on repetition, that's why this appeals to us.
The colorful tower of hyperbolic disks was much easier to make, just
one disk at a time, all of them curved negatively to varying degrees.
This is a hanging sculpture of 16 hyperbolic disks.
Some of them are curved very little, they are almost flat and look
like potato chips. Others are curved more and will eventually look
like some corals on an ocean reef.
The challenge here was to crochet them flat long enough and then
start the hyperbolic crochet with enough increase to produce at
least 5 waves around the perimeter.
Stacked vertically, I think of them as hyperbolic "beads" on a
string.
Due to the size of this surface and the difficulty to ship it, I
am submitting this as a photograph.
The basic shape is a cylinder on an oval base. Around this I
crocheted a spiral. The spiral surface became wavy because of the
hyperbolic crochet.