LIFE
HEIGHT 15 INCHES (40CM) "the miracle of replication"
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Like all children, I was fascinated by snowflakes, and this naturally lead to crystals. I made a wooden copy of a cubic pyrite crystal from Spain, in an attempt to understand and feel the growth of the structure.
This lead to my thinking about a basic shape that could multiply and change in form. I began with half of a rhombus of Fertility, which could grow into a hexagram, and then into a hexagon. |
Imagine a sheet of these hexagons can roll up into a ball, as shown in the sculpture. For me it now resembles a living creature, a Diatom, and has become LIFE.
The Center for Computational Biology at the University of Montana have an animated version of LIFE (594KB).
Last updated 5 March, 1998.