Bennett Arnstein and Rona Gurkewitz

Artists

Rona Gurkewitz, Bennett Arnstein

Professor Emerita of Computer Science, retired mechanical engineer

Western Connecticut State University

Danbury, Connecticut, USA

Statement

This Wreath with Berries was designed and folded by Bennett and assembled by Rona. Bennett enjoys building rigid 3d models out of flat flexible paper. He finds folding many modules relaxing and feels like his folding improves as he folds. Rona especially likes making origami polyhedra. One of the distinguishing features of their work is that they start from different polygons as well as squares. This model is made from 240 equilateral triangles, each made into a One Piece Triangle module.

Artworks

Image for entry 'Wreath with Berries' — Wreath with Berries
5 x 20 x 20 cm
paper
2000

This wreath was designed and folded by Bennett and assembled by Rona. It is made from 240 copies of one module. The wreath consists of ten truncated octahedra linked together in a ring. Each truncated octahedron is made from 24 One Piece Triangle modules (designed by Bennett Arnstein). Red modules are scattered throughout the model to suggest berries.The green modules suggest leaves The modules are made from equilateral triangles and hold together without glue. The modules have pockets and tabs that are produced by folding alone.Instructions for the one piece triangle module appear in "3d Geometric Origami:Modular Polyhedra", Dover 1995 by Bennett and Rona.