2020 Joint Mathematics Meetings

Rashmi Sunder-Raj

Artists

Statement

I seek patterns to make sense of my world. Some of these I choose to interpret as visual images. Sometimes this involves tessellations, sometimes crochet...and sometimes other things.

Artworks

Image for entry 'Sempervivum Tetrakaideca'

Sempervivum Tetrakaideca

30 x 30 cm

Digital print

2019

I have made numerous patterns involving simple rhombus rosettes of various sizes, and explored some of their properties. This is a 7-fold pattern involving heptagons, rhombi, and large portions of 14-fold rhombus rosettes. It can be extended outwards to fill the plane.
Image for entry 'Cairo Transitions'

Cairo Transitions

30 x 30 cm

Digital print

2018 (some touch-ups in 2019)

Additional info

I had some fun a while back exploring links between cubes inside dodecahedrons and the Cairo tiling (a monohedral pentagonal tiling). This image is an attempt to show a transition from portions of a dodecahedron within a square grid to the same portions within the pentagonal tiling. I had used it in a short video exploring similar topics which was shown at the Bridges 2018 Short Film Festival.