Quasicrystal Transformer

2023  ·  Kinetic Sculpture

Polycarbonate sheets, SS rivets and rings, digitally designed transparent stickers.

This is a dodecahedron jitterbug — a regular Platonic solid that keeps its twelve pentagonal faces whether fully contracted or fully expanded. Each face is layered with quasicrystal and aperiodic five-fold tilings, and as the structure breathes open and shut, the overlapping patterns pass through one another: interference blooming into gorgeous rotational animations and motion-born symmetries.