Gabriele Meyer
I have crocheted hyperbolic surfaces for almost 13 years now. Over
time the surfaces became more complex and they have increased in size.
What I most love about them is the play of light and shadow on the
intricate curves.
The sculptures are now far removed from any real thing that you can
find in this world. However you can find them in mathematics and in
the mind. These sculptures are my escape from this world. I needed
this escape in the last year.
This is an arrangement of hyperbolic disks, some of them in the
classical shape of Lorenz manifolds, meaning relatively flat on
one side and strongly negatively curved on the other. For the
crochet I used white and off white shades of Red Heart yarn,
crocheted around .065 inches Yardworks trimmer line, using a
3.50mm solid metal Boye hook. The irregularity of the individual
disks seems to appeal to our sense of aesthetics.
I arranged them vertically and inserted fairy lights through holes
in the center.