2025 Joint Mathematics Meetings
Prithvi Rana Dev
Artists
Prithvi Rana Dev
Conceptual and Visual Artist
Rhode Island School of Design, Industrial Design, 2015
New Delhi, India
Statement
This kinetic sculpture explores the interconnectedness of sacred geometry, tensegrity structures, and moire patterns. The self-similarity in structure, grid, and interference lends periodic harmony to elements in transformation. It reminds me of the expanding universe, and even hints at principles of holography. Discovering it has brought me joy.
Artworks
Fractal Box
12.0 x 12.0 x 12.0 cm
Polycarbonate sheets, transparent stickers, SS rivets, SS jump rings
2024
This cube consists of 6 identical square faces. Each transparent face has 2 layers with checkered square grids. As the sculpture expands and contracts, a square animation called a moire pattern is revealed through the rotation. Both the structure and the optical illusion have a period of 90 degrees. Hence it is a self consistent and self similar motion of just squares!