tesseract

did this up with jane and tioranu over the weekend... took us three whole days and close to 300bucks worth of transparent stickers to complete!

looks great and we are all really proud of it =D

now to explain the concept behind it, the tesseract, which was what really sparked us off on this project.

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Meg sighed. "Just explain it to me."
"Okay," Charles said. "What is the first dimension?"
"Well- a line."
"Okay. And the second dimension?"
"Well, you'd square the line. A flat square would be in the second dimension."
"And the third?"
"Well, you'd square the second dimension. Then the square wouldn't be flat any more. It would have a bottom, and sides, and a top."
"And the fourth?"
"Well, I guess if you want to put it into mathematical terms you'd square the square. But you can't take a pencil and draw it the way you can the first three. I know it's got something to do with Einstein and time. I guess maybe you could call the fourth dimension Time."
"That's right," Charles said. "Good girl. Okay, then, for the fifth dimension you'd square the fourth, wouldn't you?"
"I guess so."
"Well, the fifth dimension's a tesseract."

---A Wrinkle in Time (1962)
Madeleine L'Engle

Inspired by the mathematical concept of the tesseract as a means of transcending space and time, our group aims to represent the analytical nature of scientific research graphically, as tangible colour in space.

At a defined point the work seems fixed, static and perfectly logical, but move around and it slowly shifts out of reason.

Walking through the piece, the viewer is immediately immersed into a kaleidoscopic field of colours that serves to unnerve, warping preconceptions of spatial and geometrical understanding.

Hence produces a piece that exists not only in a given point in time and space, but is both affecting and affected by the viewer, transforming according to what he perceives of it.