We finished this piece of my constructive engagement sculpture yesterday and swung it out the shop door into the daylight with one of our jib cranes. It is a somewhat embellished starred icosahedron The icosahedron is one of the five regular or "platonic solids." It is made from twenty equilateral triangles. Each of these triangles is starred by adding three more forged elements which meet at a point lying on the imaginary circumscribing sphere. (These twenty points are vertices of a regular dodecahedron.) This globe-like, mandala-like element functions in the sculpture on many levels to symbolize our interdependence and belonging to a larger whole. There is five sided symmetry throughout this figure which makes for interesting internal geometry and culminates in twelve blossoms. I will be submitting frequent updates as this project progresses.

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