Commentary on Eddington's Glome etc.

I thought of painting Eddington's Glome after reading an essay by Arthur Eddington.  He had described, or attempted to do so, the image of a four-dimensional sphere.  I figured it would be interesting to paint a flat image using his explanation.  Also, a quote by Eddington enlightens: "We are bits of stellar matter that got cold by accident, bits of a star gone wrong."

A Level Meeting Place begins at the edges as a flat, two-dimensional work then becomes three-dimensional, though impossibly so.

The last painting, Prize of Pythagoras, is based loosely on the 3/4/5 right triangle and the Pythagorean tetrakys (think of the set-up of bowling pins) wherein ten points make up a triangle.  What I have done here is to distribute the ten points among the triangles from one to four each.

Geometry and Impossible Objects...Again!

A Level Meeting Place; a/c, 24" x 18"

Prize of Pythagoras; a/c, 24" x 18"

A Flat Version of a 4-D Sphere



Eddington's Glome; acrylic on canvas, 18" x 24"