George Hart

Statement

I envision and construct intricate multi-part structures that interconnect within themselves in complex ways. I get satisfaction from visualizing and working on multiple levels: from small components to larger modules to the complete big picture. An imagined structural graph encapsulates the many inter-relationships. In this respect, I believe this artistic satisfaction is exactly what any mathematician feels when solving a problem, discovering a proof, or generally bringing logical clarity to something initially baffling. In effect, I pose challenges for myself and present just the solutions, leaving viewers to examine each sculpture and speculate as to what the question is.

Artworks

Dancing Lobsters is a symmetric assemblage of sixty identical pieces of 6mm-thick laser-cut Baltic birch plywood. The piece shape was carefully calculated to swirl around neighboring pieces while connecting to four others in order to make a rigid construction. It is stained a turquoise blue on the outside and a pale blue on the inside. The sixty components may be seen as a physical representation of the icosahedral rotation group (A5) with any piece arbitrarily chosen to represent the identity.