Polyhedron Designs

My sculptures are inspired by nature and the way in which we live on the fringes of a planet which is driven by powerful bio-rhythms.

Dense salty cold water sinks deep from under the polar ice shelves and is replaced by warmer water sweeping in from the equatorial seas, creating global currents. High winds create surface currents and this never ceasing rising of warmer water and sinking of cold water forms the thermodynamic powerhouse of our planet without which the southern and northern hemispheres would freeze completely and the equator would bake.

Deep under the surface of the sea, 6000 meters to the bed of the abyssal plains, in pitch blackness, freezing temperatures and crushing pressure, life forms spin out their days unaware of night and day. Water follows these convectional currents from this deep to high into the atmosphere - in constant motion the surface of the sea forms the interface.

What the average person sees of the sea is the waves, just ripples which suggest this powerful force we use the surface and use a tiny portion of the deep, not understanding the whole picture. Water is above us, within us and around us. It is needed for our creation and carves out our visible world.

The polyhedrons are intended to represent the shape of water moving by convection, tides, wind and ocean currents. Spiralling water forms the waves that imprint our coastlines and beaches. To me these spiralling polyhedrons best symbolize this energy moving from the deep to the surface. The shape of the force.

I am also intrigued by the curved triangle as a base shape creating the circle. I see this shape recurring in association with water and earth, from frozen crystal to glacial flow and wave structures.