5/17/2023 0 Comments Justin roberts knots knotesI may consider it again, however, if I ever make a series of playground equipment. It was interesting, but I did not include it in the final show. It was supposed to be an abstract representation of solar ejections coming out of the sun in a braid-like pattern. I then colored everything sorts of orange and yellow. The plaster helped them to hold a certain curvature. Sun sculpture in progressĪfter getting this initial hemisphere, I added tubes filled with plaster as I had made in an earlier project. It worked pretty well and was a lot of fun. I emulated an approach I had seen in a globe making video somewhere a couple of years ago. I hadn’t tried to make a spherical object from plaster yet, but I had thought about it before. I also planned on having an example of the application of knot theory which was inspired by this paper: Knots and braids on the Sun. I wanted some hands-on aspect to the show, as well as some sculptures in more of a museum artifact type of situation. My plan was to have “real world” knots and their mathematical counterparts, along with some larger more sculptural examples of a few of the knots. I’m typing this a bit after the fact, but here is an update! As the end of the semester approached, I worked to put together a gallery style exhibition of knot theory. I’ll be bringing the plaster trefoil to the JMM Art Exhibit in Seattle in a couple of weeks. Speaking of which, my intentions with the beginning of the new year will be to make more work based on knots and have one more gallery show. I may need to do a planned presentation at the next event. One of the shelves fell off the wall, and the manipulative objects were not as clearly labeled as I had hoped. ![]() I conveyed most of what I had intended with the work, and the interest level was higher than I had expected. Overall the show was fairly successful from my point of view. I think it’s size coupled with the surprising news that it was really just a circle helped to bring attention to it. This piece seemed to be most interesting to the audience. The large unknot took up one end of the space and cast some very nice shadows. ![]() Below each one was a cotton rope of the same knot with the ends taped together which the viewer was encouraged to pick up and play. The usual knots were mounted on the wall. Five sets of manilla and cotton rope were used to do a translation of real world knots into mathematical versions. All the others had broken or went wrong, but I mounted fragments of the failures on the wall. I included the original plaster trefoil sculpture which turned out to be the only one I’ve produced.
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