camminando | M~M 2014 Extreme Arts Walk

M~M 2014 just started a few hours ago with the Gathering of the Elders ceremony, taking place at the You Yangs Regional Park in Lara, Victoria. The first few photos, more to come soon.

Vernissages NYC | Joel Shapiro at Pace Gallery

Vernissages NYC | Hiroshi Sugimoto at Pace Gallery

PhD Research | From the Laban Icosahedron to the db icosahedron

While I am continuing experiencing the different movement sequence, the geometric explorations of the icosahedron provide guidance. The icosahedron vertices have been 3D printed and undergoing constant improvement in terms of strength and ease of assemblage.

Vernissages NYC | Mark Rothko at Pace Gallery

camminando | M~M 2014 Extreme Artwalk

Geelong Waterfront views, from Moorabool Street

Artwalks are always a great example of art engaging communities. I have been a participant of several artwalks in the US and am very interesting in the upcoming M~M 2014 Extreme Artwalk, "an astounding original 24-hour 'extreme arts' pilgrimage - an 80km biennial journey in 12 stages that creates a contemporary songline across the municipality of Geelong, Victoria, Australia on 9th - 10th May 2014." I will be participant not as an artist, but as carrier of the symbolic canoe, which I "encountered" yesterday in the briefing at the Geelong National Wool Museum, where making wool is an art form per se.

The unusual canoe which will be carried during M~M

Views from the Geelong National Wool Museum in Moorabool Street

learning from nature | Of Spirals, Shells and... 3D prints

I am always fascinated by the spiral, shape of growth and expansion -but also contraction.  Often shells are shaped as spirals, due to their growth rules, as explained in detail by D'Arcy Thompson in "On Growth and Form". The nautilus shell follows the geometry of the logarithmic spiral. I am particularly intrigued by this shape also for the septa (thin walls) partitioning the internal camerae (chambers) of the shell: the septa are interesting per se as concave-convex surfaces, proposing the spatially ambiguity of surfaces turning inside-out. I have designed and 3D printed several models of shells and nautilus but perhaps this one is my favorite:

Nature is always a great teacher, if we listen to her..

PS More of my shell design can be seen in the Shapeways shop

camminando | Widening Sunset Horizons

To view my walk in Google Earth with larger resolution images visit 4/27/2014 17:01| AU Geelong.kmz