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Triangles and squares can cover the plane in a regular way. Pentagons have unexpected ways of "not" covering the plane, they need space, giving rise to many different characteristic arrangements. For me this is a symbol for the human, where collaboration is always is special, and we need "space" to breath, some autonomy. From this point of view, i have created paintings, some of which can be seen in the images, I have submitted two of these paintings in the Arts submission. Nowadays, working with fabrics, I am revisiting this idea of using regular pentagons not for paintings but to create garments. The concept of garments opens up many possibilities for the pentagons, and the resulting garment shapes are both familiar and alien. Weaving and knitting normally produces rectangles and these shapes are cut in ways to create a 3D shape when sewn together. The pentagon as shape allows for “building” the 3D shape around the body from the properties of the pentagon. Besides that, the pentagon from fabric will fold and ply itself. This fits in with the fact that a garment is more than just geometry, it should be worn, meaning you have to be able to put it on, moving, living in it, using pockets. An important feature of creating fashion nowadays is recycling. Recycling materials is practically mandatory by the exhaustion of the Earth. The pentagonal pieces are made of scraps of fabric, also using discarded fabrics with laser engravings and embroideries. Interestingly I was searching for the concept of recycling in geometry or mathematics. I could not find it… Neither are other “human feelings”, like care? Maybe both can be found, in an abstract way in game theory? Creating pockets out of pentagons is “easy”, how about hiding our biggest treasures inside this pentagonal pocket? Our children. Thus I created a narrative for the outfit: the mathematical parent.