There are six different part shapes,
all affinely related. These derive from a single
underlying shape, but it is projected at different
angles to derive the oblate form from an underlying
design with full icosahedral symmetry. The small
dots on the tip of each part are identifiers that may
help viewers who study the sculpture to work out some
of the details.
I made
Oxalis for the 2016
Bridges Conference
in
Jyväskylä, Finland.
Here you can see it hanging as part of the conference
Art
Exhibition. The lake and the city outside
the window are quite lovely and made a beautiful
setting for the art and the conference..
To save space, I brought the wood parts and cable ties
with me and asked some friends to help me assemble it
at the conference. Bruce and Eve Torrence are
modeling it here, after we assembled the two halves
and were ready to join them together.
Before making the above version,
I also made an uncolored prototype at a sculpture
barn raising event at
Ripon College in
Ripon, Wisconsin.
Building it is tricky, because the
six different types of pieces must be assembled in the
proper arrangement.
Many students and faculty worked on
it.