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so

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i have a background in environmental

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science

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and i was always the kid in the lab

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who was um like looking through the

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microscope and being like do you guys

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see this

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the building blocks of life i was

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astounded by it

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and i um never kind of got away from

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that feeling and then

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i started doing photography of like cell

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cultures and fungi

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when i was in college that was kind of

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like the bridge between science and

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art for me and then also my dad is a

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math teacher so i definitely got a heavy

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dose

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of mathematics growing up

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for me just growing up i think i was the

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only one in my high school who took

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advanced

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placement math and advanced placement

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studio art

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at the same time um so i i really was

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fascinated by both the physics and the

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science

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as well as the creative aspect and when

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you know

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it came down to really starting

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producing art

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where we wanted to pick a structures and

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a system

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and sort of like a vessel for our art

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and geometric forms and geometric

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patterns

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was just like the natural the natural

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way for us to explore

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i really think that um the scale of the

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work that we do is super duper important

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and so when you blow it up to like human

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size

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that gives a different sense of your

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relationship to the geometry i

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think for me like there’s no way that i

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could have

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been doing two-dimensional form

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something about sculpture

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is always the thing that i was attracted

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to our shapes for the most part

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are based on regular polyhedras so

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they’re shapes that are like

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discovered thousands of years ago so

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they have a set construct

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and then of course the panels and the

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patterns we apply to them

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reference the shapes and work with the

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shape so it’s this kind of back and

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forth between the two-dimensional

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surface and how it tessellates across

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these like very unique three-dimensional

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shapes

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and we feel that we’re like stewards of

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geometry

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and we’re sort of showcasing these

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shapes that have existed for such a long

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time and sort of like putting them on

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this pedestal like look at what this how

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beautiful this geometry is look at how

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this geometry exists in the natural

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world

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and let’s showcase it let’s be like the

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spokesperson for

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these forms and these patterns

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so much of our pattern work is

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two-dimensional surfaces

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that are applied to three-dimensional

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shapes we’ve discovered that

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developing patterns on just a sheet of

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paper is one thing developing a pattern

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that can wrap around three

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three dimensional object opens up all

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these new discoveries

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and like curiosity especially where like

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the corners meet and it creates these

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other tessellations and you just just

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make all these like very unique

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discoveries that

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i don’t think you would ever even have

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the ability to do if you’re just

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sketching on a sheet of paper

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something that we really enjoyed is

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seeing kind of the similarities between

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different pattern-making missions across

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the world each culture definitely has

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its own

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unique system designed by you know

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mostly women who are doing pattern

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making and design and like

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textiles and things like that and i’m

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from the ukraine

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and we did a piece that was based on

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ukrainian cross stitching and so

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that resuscitated like a lot of uh 90

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degree angles 45 degree angles

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and i was just really proud to do

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something for my own heritage

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i think like nature is one of the best

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pattern makers

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the patterns of flowers the fibonacci

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sequences that occur all

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you know all throughout nature the first

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pattern we did was inspired by particle

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physics

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and how these different charges were

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mapped and then they had this like

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3d model of all these charges and then

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certain projections made perfect

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hexagons

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and it was so stunning we couldn’t

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believe that the the universe is created

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from this like

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structural grid that’s so beautiful and

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so that was actually the first

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inspiration particle physics

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of the first sculpture we did and then

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from there we started going to other

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forms of

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physics and geometry islamic geometry

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we had so much respect for it because

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it’s such an ancient science and ancient

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creativity and it’s so

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scientifically advanced the patterns

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that were being made

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500 years ago um have ties to

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current discoveries in chemistry and

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physics now

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yeah so in that sense a lot of our work

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is very process based

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where um it starts from either

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three-dimensional shape or

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starts from a two-dimensional pattern

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develop or you know draw influences from

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like the natural environment

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um or you know a long history of pattern

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making and design

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in various cultures and then the

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marriage of the two

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is really kind of where we think the

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magic happens because there has to be

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like a mathematical equivalency

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between the three-dimensional shape and

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the two-dimensional

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pattern and that creates a i think a

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sort of resonance between the geometries

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that is

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unique to our work

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more than anything i think that we want

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to inspire

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a sense of malleability to the

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environment

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that it’s possible to create

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to create and to explore

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our natural built environment what we

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always say is that we

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we work on desks that are made of 90

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degree

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angles and rooms that are 90 degree

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angles

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and there’s a lot of degrees other than

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90 that

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are totally awesome to explore

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and i i’d like people to to see these

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our artwork and sort of realize how

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beautiful and elegant geometry can be

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something that is you know universal

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across the globe through physics through

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math

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not you know through other planets if

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they all have geometric structures on

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them

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that this this geometry is is really um

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a beautiful thing and one thing that our

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artwork we always

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we always like to do is that because we

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combine

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you know math and artwork that we allow

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our work

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to get people excited about math and

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inspire

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studies and math um so for people who

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are artistic who don’t have an aptitude

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for math this is how they can sort of

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play and explore that likewise for

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people who are really

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uh have i opted for math that aren’t

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very creative

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for them they can say wow my math can be

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a medium

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for art in math i can use

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math as my creativity to do something

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creative so math can be creative

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and creativity can be mathematic and not

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back and forth we really

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find can inspire people in different

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ways

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once they experience our artwork

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you