2022 Joint Mathematics Meetings
Partha Krishna
Artists
Statement
Through my love of origami, I came across the exciting world of tessellations. I found them very interesting, as the folds would always come together geometrically and beautifully as I was folding. After folding some tessellations such as Eric Gjerde's spread hex tessellation, among others, I started to modify pre-existing tessellations. After that, I started to fold and make my own tessellations. I worked off of basic ideas and modified them to be much more intricate and beautiful. My tessellations are meant to explore the concept of recurring geometric figures, while also drawing attention to the space in between these figures
Artworks
Trilogy
60 x 47 cm
Stardream Paper
2021
This is my third large original tessellation, which is why I called the piece "Trilogy." I again decided to use a triangle grid, and this time settled on blue paper, which I thought would be a nice pair with my other red and yellow pieces. My design process was to make a bunch of different folds and then try and maneuver the paper so that it was flat. The product was a repeating design that made use of squash folds. What I liked is that the piece seems to have circular shapes on it, even though no folds are curved. In the end, I had a lot of fun creating this piece, and I feel that this style of making origami pieces will provide great opportunities for me in the future.