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Pairi Daêza

By  Susan Eyre 2015
The word Paradise originates from ancient Iranian pairi daêza meaning around and wall. This work makes connections between origins, the structure of matter, and belief systems. While learning about geometry and the platonic solids I was intrigued by Plato’s description of the fifth platonic solid - the dodecahedron - as ‘a fifth construction which God used for embroidering the constellations on the whole heaven’. In this work I have taken the net which is used as the pattern to make a 3D dodecahedron – when cut and folded into shape - as a structure meshing together images of constellations, an abandoned walled garden and a roundabout. C-type print on metallic paper mounted on laser cut aluminium.
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