the underground needs you! (art: @subsanctuary detail from our shared shop)

a note about education... to a large degree my success with geometry is due to the particularly robust and generous community around the meeting place of art and mathematics. we all have, and continue to learn from and teach each other. at bridges (a yearly conference for our sort) half of the people there are academics, as well as being inventors, researchers, artists and often times also musicians. we experience each other's art, attend each other's lectures (play music and party at night) and at the end of it all post every single paper from the event for free, every year. go search out the bridges archive and lose your minds... it's beautiful. this is because we care about the work and the learning and the collective education more than anything. i see it again and again in those with any geometric mastery... an inate desire to educate others about these amazing forms, and in so doing, continue their own reverent study of an infinite art. this photo is from a starwood festival many years back. i was gluing penrose tiles to a piece of ply in the sun. i kept answering the same questions about the piece so i wrote about the piece and it's geometry on the margins and directed people to other geometric resources. among other places, i directed folks to the amazing tilings encyclopedia @geladab helped make (edmund, you can just make out "harris" in this shot) and tried to create some useful diagrams of how they work. the piece was cut down to a pentagon, so this is what remains that didn't get covered by the piece itself. we will always keep doing this. not just naked geometry, but everyone out there working to learn more about this unthinkably beautiful nature we find ourselves in and its marvelous and clever shapes. we will clearly communicate what we learn, as our understanding together is where the story really begins. life is busy, so i won't promise it will be quick, but I will respond to any question asked in the comments. if it's about geometry, you might even get a satisfying answer 🙂

If you’ve been chilling in #pgh long enough you already know what you’re looking at. There used to be an abandoned factory that had a huge pile of this industrial #glass. So many houses have a favorite piece displayed somewhere. This is my one and only haul from the initial big pile. Finally washed them today after maybe 15 years. 💚 #punktreasure #pghart

sliding reciprocal frame model for icosahedral symmetry (with @jojaburr). don’t worry, we’ll keep tinkering.

a pattern @adelordjah and I worked on using 7 8 9 stars in a square tile.

@spicespeculiar left his sketchbook open to a beautiful dot work so I took a photo. don't tell. #pghart

you gotta get to the root of the matters

"Each day we wake up tired and alone. Don't go into the study and begin reading. Take down a musical instrument. Let the beauty that we love be what we do. There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the ground." - Rumi

"the top of a hill is a nice place to take flight from" Apex Portal @cerebralconcepts @nakedgeometry @subsanctuary and friends! Resonance, 2019 #pyramid #cerebralconcepts #nakedgeometry #subsanctuary #sacredgeometry #festivalart #visionaryart #cnc #collaboration #teamworkmakesthedreamwork