Museum of the Golden Ratio

I am honored to have my sculpted prints featured in the Museum of the Golden Ratio, an online museum curated by Astrid Fitzgerald. Astrid is a talented and prolific artist and writer who has made a consistent exploration of geometry in her work, some of which you can see in the museum as well.

The Museum collects artists from past and present who have a general interest in geometric forms, and specifically in the golden ratio. My own work with sculpted prints is based on a pattern known as snub square tiling. This pattern allows me to reshape a two-dimensional image into a three-dimensional structure with minimal loss of the original material.

Each triangular pyramid starts out as a flat square, so I can take a base image, overlay a square grid, and create a sculpted print by cutting out only a quarter of each square that I want to turn into a pyramid. There are two pyramids for every square (modulo edge effects), so I'm losing approximately one-sixth of the original image with this procedure. But in return, I think I get an object with a seductive texture and visual appeal that provokes interesting questions about how we process data and turn it into knowledge.