Intersections
A Public Art Exhibition
Paula Krieg
Paula Beardell Krieg creates art, deciphers the mathematics embedded in paper constructions, and designs and teaches objects that explore the intersection of art and math. After becoming estranged from math in college, she seized the opportunity to again become enchanted with the subject while helping her children with their school work. The early years of the Math Twitter BlogOSphere supported her inquiries and growth, helping to deepen a mathematical practice that was generous in both rigor and whimsy. Krieg writes about her work at https://bookzoompa.wordpress.com/
Artwork
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Matryoshka-like Compound of Two Cubes with Convex Hull and Common Solid
Paper, magnets
18” x 18” x 9”
A paper model of the compound of two cubes, which opens up to reveal the shape that is the common volume of the cubes. It's all housed in a specific box that connects all the vertices of the compound. Every piece of the trio is surprising: the outer hull seems to be unrelated to the cubes, yet the compound fits into the box like a glove. While it seems hard to imagine the shape of the common solid of the compound cubes, separating the solid reveals the unexpected shape within. Like the hull and the compound, this inner shape opens up in a surprising way, and inside are scrolls of the nets of all the pieces in the set.