a) Diamond
b) Graphite
c) londsdaleite
d) e) f) fullerene or buckyball
g) amormous carbon
h) nanotube or buckytube
Allotropes are different structural modifications of a chemical element.
In this case carbon. The most common and stable allotropes of carbon are diamond and graphite.
The fullerene was discovered in 1985 and named after it's ressemblance to Buckminster Fuller's geodesic domes.
I am particularly interested in the amormous state, which is neither diamond nor graphite, does not have a regular, stable pattern.
I'll be basing my sausage sculptures on some of these forms.
On a wider less specific scale, you have the geometric figures known as Plato's solids, which I believe Alex is also basing his sculptures on.
I'm still trying things out, so the forms of reference for my piece might change depending on the possibilities of the material I'm using, and intention to draw closer or further from the models in question.
Similar lattice structures occur in the formation of ice as well (although they're hexagonal) and the platonic solids are also prevalent in other crystal formations. What's the deal with keeping the flyer at the top- will it stay there automatically or do I have to do something when I post?
RépondreSupprimerI often notice a certain humour in your work, in this case using knacky balls as a recurrent shape to build the forms.
RépondreSupprimerCan you talk more specifically about a certain degree of irony or cynism that carries your work?
Eternal love, internal sunshine!
Eric