Carolyn Yackel
I love to share the excitement and joy of mathematics with others.
Making mathematics visual allows a large audience to experience beauty
in conjunction with mathematics, as I do. My goal is to create objects
that both display a mathematical concept and intricately use
mathematics in their creation.
Temari is a traditional Japanese needlecraft consisting of
embroidery into a thread wrapped spherical. For the Mathemalchemy
art installation project, I proposed that we depict the Catalan
solids on selected temari balls and devised three interwoven
stitching plans for the dispersed group of stitchers. This
thirteen ball set is a cross-section of a larger in-progress piece
consisting of my solo stitching of the thirty-nine temari balls
depicting each of thirteen spherical Catalan solids stitched with
the three different interwoven stitching plans. The two
enantiomorphic solids (pentagonal icositetrahedron and pentagonal
hexecontahedron) are stitched with a face outlining plan. The
other eleven employ an edge outlining plan.