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Möbius I - 2012 [sold] - A unique geometric sculpture, hand-made from beautiful fine-grained sandstone quarried at Glossop in Derbyshire.
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Möbius I with Base and Pedestal. 2012 [sold] |
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Overall height: 54’’. Pedestal: 42’’ x 18’’ x 3’’ |
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Möbius I is the first of a series of sculptures exploring the topology of the Möbius strip in three dimensions: The mathematician August Ferdinand Möbius first examined this strange form in the nineteenth century and gave us the Möbius strip. Take a strip of paper, twist it through 180°, turn it round into a torus and glue it together. Were you to trace a line along the middle of the strip, you would find that this strip of paper, which appears to have two surfaces, has in fact got only one continuous surface. Similarly, the Möbius strip has only one edge, not two as one might suppose. The Möbius strip is a conundrum – what are the implications of warping a plane through three dimensions to our understanding of planes and dimensions? This series of Möbius sculptures of mine explores the conundrum further by starting to examine similar warpings of three dimensional cross-sections through space. The cross-section of Möbius I’s torus is a square throughout, but instead of having four continuous surfaces and edges as one might expect, it has only two of each. Twisting and warping the surfaces seems to transform stone from an inert material almost into an organic form. |
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To read more about Möbius strips and solids, and to see four short video demonstrations of their properties, click the images below to follow the link: 
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