Debora Coombs
I am curious about quasicrystals and how they might form in Nature. I
use my lifelong experience as an artist and deep love of geometry to
ask visual questions. Penrose tiling correlates with the structure of
quasicrystals and continues to provide a rich source for my inquiry.
I made drawings by hand over a 4,000-rhomb patch of P3 tiling and
combined them digitally. I used graphite to outline identical
configurations of ten rhombs set within a regular decagon, and
colored ink to code their orientations within the tiling. I call
these configurations of rhombs 'decagon drums' and shaded them to
look like objects with real depth. In making these drawings I
learned that decagon drums cover a P3 tiling leaving only
star-shaped voids.