David Hirsch
Artists
Statement
This work is for me a story of coming full circle. In 1980 I registered a patent named 'a device for generating a meander motion'. It described a solid with a single developable face, known today as the sphericon. Since then, more solids have been found that shared the same property, but the sphericon was unique in having a face made of a uniform surface rather than various kinds of surfaces. Recently, I was asking myself whether there were other solids sharing this characteristic. This led me to a new study whose outcome was, to my joy, the discovery of a new family of solids, of which the sphericon is the first member. Thus the sphericon has now found its family and I was lucky to come full circle and meet my original inspiration again.
Artworks
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The polycons: the sphericon has found its family.
17 x 60 x 60 cm
Maple wood, Anigre wood, Baillonella wood
2019