Artist's studio, UK

TEMPLE OF FIRE

HEIGHT 12INCHES (30CMS)
STAINLESS STEEL
1996

"the sacred flame of life is fertility"

The sculpture is composed of 5 tetrahedrons, two of which are linked end to end. The three remaining tetrahedrons support the joined couple. The Rhombus is the `sacred flame of life', Fertility, but I also see it being like a Gene, because you can go on adding tetrahedrons to the sculpture for ever, so that it becomes like a Family Tree. If you go back 1000 years, we each have millions of ancestors. We are the Genetic melting pots of survival Genes.

Related mathematical and scientific ideas are explained in the pages on Fractals.



©Mathematics and Knots/Edition Limitee 1996
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