Alejandro Erickson

This beautiful and solid sculpture feels nice and fairly heavy in the hand. Keep it where guests can touch and inspect it.

There are 91 sticks of each colour: Blue, Green, Deep Red, and Deep Brown (Black in dim light).

This video shows how I made it:

I am selling this by dutch auction, starting at $80 and reducing by $5 each week.

This sculpture is similar to one by George Hart, called 72 pencils. http://www.georgehart.com/sculpture/pencils.html

I make geometric crafts, sculptures, materials, and I teach workshops. More information at http://geoburst.ca

I got hopelessly lost the first time I tried to make this, but with a bit of patience and some images from the article on Wikipedia, I have come out of it one Compound of 5 Tetrahedra richer.

Here is an animated GIF of the model.  It will be available to buy on Etsy as soon as I have taken the proper photographs.

Each of the five tetrahedra is a different colour, so that the colouring has the same properties as the one in my coloured icoshedrons (correct me if I'm wrong here!).

I am available to teach people how to make things like this (though this one is for the nimble and patient), and I also colour sticks for such purposes.  Please contact me with the information on this website.

These vividly colored icosahedrons look great when hung from the ceiling, or a wall, but the fun doesn't stop there. You'll notice that the colors seem to follow a pattern which is quite amazing. 

I'll skip over the cool math that is involved, but try holding two opposite nodes still, and spin it by 1/5 of a rotation. What happens to all the yellows? All the greens? etc. Maybe I'll make a video about it later!

My icosahedrons are made using colored skewers that are held together with wire. It is not glued, but the whole thing is dipped in acrylic medium to give it a nice shiny finish. They are very durable and can be kicked around the house without breaking (don't try too hard though, ok?)

I will sell this by dutch auction, starting at $150, and reducing by $5 each week. You never know who's waiting for it to come down, so buy it quick!

http://www.etsy.com/listing/84895025/beautiful-geometric-sculpture-with

This is a "Hexastix", shaped into a "Stellated Rhombic Dodecahedron". It casts a beautiful shadow, and belongs in a sunny window where the light hits something behind it. You'll need to remember that if you buy it. :)

I make all of my sculptures in a small rented workshop in Victoria, BC, where I am a PhD candidate at the University of Victoria.

Beauty in mathematics, especially geometric beauty, is an ongoing passion. The asking price of this sculpture is very low, but it is worth selling, just to know someone else is in love with it.

Learn more about GeoBurst on http://geoburst.ca