Florescence

Florescence is a suite of three pods that takes its name from the process or period of a plant’s flowering.

 

Each pod is composed of three intersecting sphericons – a sphericon being a ‘paradoxical solid’ made from the combination of four half-cones. This shape-shifting form embodies the changes that occur when a flower opens or becomes sexually functional, known as anthesis.

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Viewed from above, the pod is a perfect equilateral triangle. From the front, converging circular edges. And from the side, dimensionally spliced sphericons.

 

The transformational effect is amplified by the luminosity of the straw marquetry’s bloom-like geometric pattern, which mimics a flower’s sequential colour changes during anthesis.

 

Each pod has a removable lid and is held together with magnets when closed.

 

Florescence / Pod (yellow) / 2023.

carbon biopolymer

brass inlay

50 x 43.5 x 43.5 cm

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Florescence / Pod (blue) / 2023.

carbon biopolymer

brass inlay

50 x 43.5 x 43.5 cm

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Florescence / Pod (red) / 2023.

carbon biopolymer

brass inlay

50 x 43.5 x 43.5 cm

1/1

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Images by Andrew Curtis.