Wednesday 22 August 2012

Junk Geode III : Icosahedron




 

Poster board, metalized polyester film, wax.

The icosahedron, one of the five Platonic solids, it is a regular polyhedron with 20 equilateral triangular faces. Plato conceptualized the icosahedron as the atomic form of water, and within his philosophy it was an example of an enduring form, a manifestation of the eternal.

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