2017 Bridges Conference Nominees' Gallery
Gabriele Meyer
Artists
Gabriele Meyer
Senior Lecturer Emerita
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Statement
I like to crochet objects involving hyperbolic surfaces and with other mathematical aspects. This year I am interested in how two surfaces can intersect each other and how surfaces self intersect. One can make interesting illuminated sculptures this way.
Artworks
visualization of complex w=z^12 crocheted around a cylinder
90 x 40 cm
photography
2016
This object was crocheted with polyester yarn around shaped plastic line.
First I crocheted the central cylinder. Then I crocheted a not quite regular spiral row down along the cylinder and up in a curved line back to the starting point, thus self intersecting the downward spiral in 11 locations. There were 15 such consecutive rows. In the final rows there was a slight hyperbolic crochet to make the surface wavy.
Finally I illuminated the sculpture with battery powered fairy lights.