Thank you to everyone who helped and especially to the
Explorium director, Lauren Hubbard, for the excellent
arrangements.
Before that, and before I colored the parts, I had
assembled them with the public as part of the first
Later, I made this second instance of
the design for an exhibition
Technically Beautiful
at the Packer Collegiate Institute in Brooklyn,
NY. Note that this version is the mirror image of
the one at the Maritime Explorium, like left-handed and
right-handed gloves. I often make a design twice
in this way; creating a symmetric pair emphasizes my
interest in the symmetry. The same laser-cutting
template is used to make the parts, but I bevel the
edges on the opposite face. Perhaps someday the
pair will be exhibited together somewhere. Thank you to
Liz Titone for arranging the
Technically Beautiful
exhibition and to Tori Gibbs for the gallery photo.
And finally, I later made a small model of the design to
keep for myself. This is almost 10 cm in
diameter---under 4 inches. Sometimes it is nice to
have a small keepsake of a large sculpture.
Here it is under construction, before gluing on its
head. If you look carefully, you'll see a slight
difference in the design between this small model and
the full-scale sculpture. For this, I made a
single piece which looks like three pieces,
corresponding to the module of three almost coplanar
parts that make each inside triangle. An etched
line simulates the overs and unders of the module in the
large sculpture. So this model is assembled from
just twenty parts while the sculpture is made from
sixty.