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.