Gabriele Meyer

Statement

I like to crochet hyperbolic surfaces and making linoprints. The inspiration often comes from sea creatures and mathematics, like smooth curves and curve families. This time, I experimented with hyperbolic annuli. A large radius hyperbolic annulus, crocheted hyperbolically naturally twists into a double spiral, with interleaving branches. This also allows for collapsing the double spiral so that its branches cover a smaller radius annulus. There is no cover where the branches connect at the top and the bottom. I used small hyperbolic annuli as building blocks for hanging sculptures.

Artworks

This is an annulus crocheted hyperbolically. It can be twisted in many interesting ways. One way is to form two interleaving spirals connected at the top and the bottom. Another way would be two spirals hanging in parallel or just some interwoven spirals.

This hanging sculpture consists of three mutually linked hyperbolic annuli. Each annulus naturally twists into a double spiral. Combining them this way gives an interesting effect.