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"Bucky Fuller"
Sculptural Prayer
Based on Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion Map, related to his geodesic dome, this piece serves as a lesson in hand scoring and folded metal design. The pattern that Bucky Fuller created was a flat blueprint of the earth composed almost entirely of equilateral triangles. I have reinvented the design to include only equilateral triangles in order to streamline and ease the process of assembly.
Here you can see the Dymaxion Map design laid out flat:
https://tinyurl.com/zy4acwx
His blueprint of the world in this format drew my attention right away by it's strange configuration of the continents. After reading more about his plans, I came to understand that he meant to allow for this to happen, to inspire and teach a more logical and accurate representation of continental relationships.
The geometric shape constructed is an icosahedron, or 20-sided polygon and platonic solid in Euclidian geometry. This 3-dimensional figure is also a symbol of the elemental water, a life force and a liquid that is unique to Earth as compared to the other planets in our solar system.