George W. Hart
This sculpture, D-Flat, is
really hard to capture in a still photograph.
Perhaps this video, which shows it rotating, is the best way to get a sense of it.
Perhaps this video, which shows it rotating, is the best way to get a sense of it.
It consists of thirty pieces of
laser-cut wood, stained yellow and orange, assembled
with cable ties.
Seen from the top, it has five-fold rotational symmetry as in this rendering.
And here it is uncolored, test-fitting the parts before applying the stain. The form derives from my sculpture Geometry Ascending a Staircase, at Duke University, but is transformed to be oblate by mapping z to z/2. So that's where the name D-Flat comes from, but you can think of its musical associations if you prefer.