Cubistic (2017)

Amy Ione painting
Necker Cube Study

Cubistic (2017) is a Necker cube study. The work is a perceptual oil painting that explores visual ambiguity and cognitive interpretation through geometric abstraction. Its starting point was the concept of the Necker cube—an optical illusion first described by Swiss crystallographer Louis Albert Necker in 1832. Continue reading “Cubistic (2017)”

Hyperbolic Surface by Christopher W. Tyler and Amy Ione

Image. Hyperbolic Surface
Hyperbolic Surface

This Hyperbolic Surface sculpture was constructed out of paper in 2001 with Christopher W. Tyler.
Connecting regular 7-sided polygons (heptagons) together to form a surface results in a geometry that cannot exist in flat (Euclidean)
space. Instead, it creates a regular tiling of the hyperbolic plane. Specifically, the arrangement where three heptagons meet at each vertex
forms the heptagonal tiling with Schläfli symbol. Continue reading “Hyperbolic Surface by Christopher W. Tyler and Amy Ione”