Aleksander Tedstone

Statement

I have spent the last decade honing my skills carving topological structures from a single block of wood. These pieces chronicle my journey through an increasingly abstract search for original structures, and I think of them as brothers not only because they are derived from the exploration of a family of structures using rhombic patterns, but they are carved from the same piece of timber from a beech tree over the course of around 5 years. The spalting visible on both pieces, formed by interacting fungal colonies in the wood itself, interacts with the woods grain to provide naturalistic accents in an otherwise abstract form.

Artworks

Exploring the 3-dimensional world by starting from a 2-dimensional reference point using tiles that can either tile the plane and form the faces of semiregular polyhedra provides an intuitive route to generating sculptural forms. This sculpture is derived from a rhombic patterning technique applied to the rhombic dodecahedron, and is carved from a single block of wood to produce a form unique in both concept and execution.

This sculpture is derived from a rhombic patterning technique applied to a rhombic triacontahedron, and is carved from a single block of wood to produce a form unique in both concept and execution. It is represents the extension of the approach used to create its companion piece Triaxiallia 12, which was crafted from the same original tree.