Crystalline grain

Stoneware.

Exploring symmetry and interference.

This hand-built sculpture is based on a tetragonal crystal structure. Each node connects to four others, forming a lattice similar to diamond. From most angles, the symmetry is hard to read, but when the structure aligns, the underlying order becomes clear. Like a diffractometer, we see constructive interference through shifting perspective.

Name

Lamp in stoneware.

Investigating flow and temperature in a continuum.

Vertical gallery of lab images

Energy flux

Vase in Stoneware

Energy propagation has both direction and shape – physically, perceptually. It can be focused into a point, like here, or like the superconducting magnets in synchrotrons that hold the beam in place.