2011-2013 Platonic Solids
acrylic and pencil on canvas
24 x 24 x 2"
2011
acrylic and pencil on canvas
60 x 60 x 2"
2011
acrylic and pencil on canvas
60 x 60 x 2"
2012
acrylic and pencil on canvas
72 x 72 x 2"
2011
acrylic and pencil on canvas
72 x 72 x 2"
2011
Plato's hypothesis in his dialogue "Timaeus", where he outlines how the classical elements were made of regular solids, and Mario Livio's contemporary text, "The Golden Ratio: The Story of PHI, the World's Most Astonishing Number" inspired these paintings. Plato describes the solids as the tetrahedron with four triangular faces, the cube with six square faces, the octahedron with eight triangular faces, the dodecahedron with twelve pentagonal faces, and the icosahedron with twenty triangular faces.