Christmas presents — Okno
My earlier post of portions of the finished projects were of these pendants/ornaments, designed by Mu, a talented French beader. She generously wrote and shared instructions to make Okno. She has other instructions on her blog, linked on the left as Schémas.
Teresa Sullivan at the Mesa Arts Center
I received a mailing from Teresa Sullivan notifying me of her upcoming exhibition at the Mesa Arts Center in Mesa, Arizona from January 22nd to March 14th. Entitled Station Identification, it is a solo exhibit narrating “the stories of people discovering their own special powers and abilities. From the super heroines found in comic books…
Double triple spiral, step 2
And so it grows….
Double triple spiral, step 1
You know how on the classic spiral, for each core bead, you go back three spiral beads? To get this 20mm diameter rope, each core bead equals 72 spiral beads! It reminds me a bit of a Dutch spiral with the loose spiral this bead count creates.
TED: Margaret Wertheim on the beautiful math of coral
I recently watched this TED talk (Technology Engineering and Design), and loved how art, craft, math, and engineering intersected. Wertheim is a science writer, and with her twin sister Christine, founded the Institute for Figuring — “an organization dedicated to the poetic and aesthetic dimensions of science, mathematics and the technical arts.” She termed the…