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-Sam

Tuesday, March 17, 2009

2.3-D

Oil, graphite, and collage on masonite
24" x 48"
2008
$150

This piece is about transformations between 2 and 3 dimensions.  The maps collaged into the background show a 2-D representation of a 3-D world.  Paper airplanes show how a 3-D object can be created from a 2-D one.  Some of the paper airplanes in this piece are painted (another 2-D representation of 3 dimensions) and some are made out of maps and attached.

The ways that objects and properties change when transferred between spaces of different dimensions is under constant scrutiny by mathematicians.  By studying the changes between 2 and 3 dimensions, they can often infer how changes in higher level dimensions may act.  In this way, they are able to study spaces that cannot be comprehended without math.  
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Anonymous said...

From Shilpa: Sam, I'm just looking at your blog now- this is great! I like how on this posting it's hard at first to tell which planes are real and which are painted, you have to look twice. Nice slideshow.

March 25, 2009 at 11:29 AM

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