Peter Hilgers

Statement

In 1982 the artist and amateur geometer Georg Odom found an elegant construction of the golden ratio. It requires only elementary geometry and might have been discovered 2000 years earlier. However, it is not contained in the bequeathed texts of Euclid and Heron of Alexandria on the subject. My fake photo - not produced by AI - plays with an imaginary situation: A recent archeological finding proves that in ancient times the construction was known and used for an artwork, a forged bronze disc with golden inlays. I was inspired by the Nebra Sky Disk (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nebra_sky_disc), a more that 3500 years old astronomic instrument.

Artworks

In 1982 the artist and amateur geometer G. Odom found an elegant construction of the golden ratio. It requires only elementary geometry and might have been discovered 2000 years earlier. However, it is not contained in the bequeathed texts of Euclid and Heron of Alexandria on the subject. The faked photo - not produced by AI - plays with an imaginary situation: A recent archeological finding proves that in ancient times the construction was known and used for an artwork, a forged bronze disc with golden inlays. I was inspired by the Nebra Sky Disk (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nebra_sky_disc), a more that 3500 years old astronomic instrument.