Michael Hootman

Statement

As an architect and designer I have always been fascinated by the works and writings of R. Buckminster Fuller. He developed and promoted a way of working that he referred to as experiential mathematics. In this effort, I had not intended to design a bottle and stopper. It materialized out of the intuitive exploration of simple geometries and care free curiosity.

Artworks

A three fold trinity of rhombic faces (phi:one) generate a second tier of intersecting rhombi to create a prismatic crown. The interpenetrating geometries writhe and fall to form a self-same void; a chamber for the Gorgon antidote.