john wrote:
 >
 > Have you seen what Goerge Hart has done with a very similar sort of
 > sculptures ?

Yes. Our "sculptures" are "very similar" in the way that all paintings 
on canvas are very similar. The finite number of forms around which 
"polyhedral art" can be built are visually distinctive as a group (more 
so than canvases) because most artists do not have the interest or 
aptitudes to work around these forms.

George Hart and I are wired in such a way that working on these forms is 
as straight-forward as working on a canvas; It is the paint applied to 
the canvas that matters. In this respect we are dissimilar. George Hart 
is making polyhedron art, I am using polyhedral symmetries as a 
mechanisms of iteration. What does that mean? Well, it means that George 
Hart's non-polyhedral works are foam "prints" of mathematical functions 
while mine are print works which employ other forms of iteration. 
Sculpture wise, it means that my sculpture would be heavier than his and 
that I'm not interested enough in the form itself to feel it "carries 
itself" as a shitty-looking piece of acrylic.

  -Shay

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