When you forget the yarn about angles in a triangle and exponential progressions (see previous post), the hyperbolic plane looks like a sculpture. I positioned mine in my dining room, in relation to a plant on one side and a painting on the other. The red curly hyperbolic plane relates to both. Perhaps it functions as a mediator, like a thermostat, hmmm. A discussion of when we think of an object as art and when we don’t can get heated because of strong opinions on either side. The question, “what’s the difference between art and artifact,” is really what the workshop was about. But you already suspected that.
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artamaze by Katherine Hilden 