Julia Handl and Deliné Pőcze Erzsébet
Julia Handl is a PhD student at Johannes Kepler University in Linz.
She believes that fractals are one of the most beautiful ways to
combine mathematics and art.
Deliné Pőcze Erzsi is a creative coach and jewelry designer living in
Budapest. Creating is her passion. She loves to explore the
opportunities in casual objects which are useless or sublime for
others.
The design for the earrings and pendant is based on a
plane-filling curve-set that lives on the 3.4.6.4-grid. This grid
has two classes of edges and therefore requires a set of two
curves to fill the plane. Any two of these curves form a deformed
square, as indicated by white and black silk cords. The curve-set
is of order 19 and its square tile encloses 19 squares.
The method used is called the soutache technique. A silk cord
holds together the geometric shapes that form the grid. The
triangular and rectangular beads are glued to felt fabric, and the
soutache cord was sewn on by hand. The organic shapes were paired
with the strict, pre-calculated mathematical structure, reminding
the viewer of the coexistence of civilization and nature.