2023 | Kinetic Sculpture
Polycarbonate sheets, SS rivets and rings, Digitally designed transparent stickers.
2023 | Kinetic Sculpture
Polycarbonate sheets, SS rivets and rings, Digitally designed transparent stickers.
2023 | Sculpture - Hand built with lazercut polycarbonate sheets, transparent graphic stickers, stainless steel hardware, bulbs
An exploration of modular jitterbug geometries, their resultant motions and structure. It includes an expandable lighting concept i:e; a transparent and modular pyramid prototype.
2021 | Digital, Grasshopper 3D
In a play of motion dynamics, dots trace the trajectories of each face of the Platonic solids as they move from closed to open - contracted to expanded state - in jitterbug motion, as illuminated by Buckminster Fuller, Duncan Stuart, and Joseph Clinton in the 1960's.
There are some interesting symmetries that emerge from this line of visual thinking, and also from creating animations that are inherent in the motion of the kinetic structure itself, as seen in the ghost tetrahedron. The use of transparency allows me to illuminate sacred and fundamental geometries.
Tetrahedron - Edge View
Tetrahedron - Vertex View
Cube - Face View
Cube - Vertex View
Octahedron - Vertex View
Cube - Perspective View
Icosahedron - Vertex View
Icosahedron - Face View
Dodecahedron - Vertex View
Dodecahedron - Face View
2021 | Digital, Grasshopper 3D
An exploration of periodic interference patterns in regular 3 dimensional structures i:e; the Platonic solids. Each geometry consists of only one type of polygon (equilateral triangle, square, or pentagon), which is used to construct the structure, grid, and animation for its kinetic cycle.
The simplest multidimensionally symmetrical motion of equilateral triangles.
A symmetrical multidimensional motion of squares.
A self-similar motion of equilateral triangles using the 8-sided octahedron as a structural base.
A self-similar symmetrical 2D and 3D motion of equilateral triangles.
A multidimensional motion based on 5-fold symmetry.
A multidimensional motion based on 5-fold symmetry.
2019 | Sculpture - Hand-constructed using lazercut acrylic sheets, transparent stickers, and stainless steel hardware
Fuller’s iconic jitterbug inspired design scientists such as Joseph Clinton, Duncan Stewart and H.F Verheyen to create and classify a family of expanding-contracting structures, known as ‘dipolygonoids’. These handheld transformers delight through movement. Their regularity, symmetry, and binary alternating interconnectivity are fascinating nested alterations to regular Platonic and Archimedean solids. Furthermore, their rotational translation embeds them in one another. Kinetic art that requires handheld interactions allow for a more personal conceptual experience. ‘Jitterbug Transformations’ is a set of graphic geometrical models that builds on their work with this in mind. I make novel explorations of analog illusion and moving-image techniques on these structures, considering materiality, transparency, and appropriate symbolism. Motion graphics here are inherent in the structures themselves, as opposed to being digital projections. Since dipolygonoids require time to expand and contract, they allow for any concept that takes place through time as ripe ground for visualisation, be it lunar and solar cycles, image sequences, or optical patterns. The viewer’s deliberate action allows for the potential animation to actuate. Using tools of radial and grid lines, dots, regular polygons, and cut out animation, I aim to simulate ideas such as the holographic principle, converging moire, quasicrystal, and dot patterns, and the interconnectedness of atomic through universal scales of reality.
Video includes a spiral tetrahedron, square-moire cube, triangular-moire octahedron, spiral cubeoctahedron, and spiral icosahedron.
Sacred Geometry : Demonstration of the interconnectedness of various jitterbugs.
Quasicrystal Dodecahedron
Prototype : Modular Pyramid
Prototype : Pentagonal Anti-prism
Quasicrystal Cube
‘Dancing Sunflower’ : The Golden Ratio moire box
‘Universe as illusion’ : Phi Spiral Cube
Universe Box
Phi-Spiral Rainbow Tetrahedron
Chinmayi Cube
10-fold cut-out pattern on a pentagonal frame.
Moire Box
2014 | Sculpture - Acrylic sheets, transparent stickers, stainless steel rivets, and fishing wire
Dimensions - 5 in x 5 in x 5 in
Think outside what box?
This jitterbug is a bolted tensegrity. The term ‘tensegrity’ refers to the tensional integrity or interconnected nature of tension and compression that gives the structure it’s continuous elasticity. Translucent materiality allows for the cube to animate an optical illusion as it expands and contracts. This 4D spiral hologram is created by mirrored lines moving in opposing directions, symbolising a physical ‘event-horizon’. It is inspired by the quantum principle of non-locality i:e; what effects here effects there, from which, everywhere. Strength can be found through rigidity but also by a kinetic ability to sway and adapt.
2013 | Sculpture - Aluminium block, Brass rods.
Dimensions - 6 in x 6 in x 1.5 in
A hand-milled, drilled, lathed, and hydraulic pressed cantilever that reveals itself through rotation and revolution.
