Angie Lee
I'm a systems engineer by day and papercutting enthusiast by night. I'm fascinated by the intersection of mathematics, art, and nature. I love to express my awe and appreciation of patterns in nature through papercutting and mixed media art.
For this piece, I was inspired by the naturally occurring
spherical and polyhedral patterns of bubbles and foam. This
represents the two-dimensional cross section of a
three-dimensional foam, subtly revealing Voronoi patterns. The
foam shows a gradation of wet to dry foams, where wet foams have
more spherical shapes and showcase the effect of spherical
particle packing. As the liquid becomes dryer, the shapes become
more polyhedral and larger through the process of coarsening.
Ultimately the liquid evaporates and the shapes dissipate. The
flowers represent the delicate nature of both this natural
phenomena and the papers used in its creation.