2019
Wall Panel Study, 2019
This polychrome marble mosaic adorned a presently unknown building in Cairo, Egypt during the Mamluk period. It was gifted to the MET through the Hagop Kevorkian Fund, but earlier provenance is unknown. Curious about the 5-sided tesselating geometries that underpin this mosaic, I found a video demonstrating how to construct a similar pattern and then iterated on that method until I was able to recreate the entire mosaic with only a compass and straightedge. The use of unit based measurement is intentionally omitted from this process in order to explore the idealized mathematical relationships that the tools (compass and straightedge) afford.
This precedent study was self-initiated.
Interior Design, Precedent Study
This polychrome marble mosaic adorned a presently unknown building in Cairo, Egypt during the Mamluk period. It was gifted to the MET through the Hagop Kevorkian Fund, but earlier provenance is unknown. Curious about the 5-sided tesselating geometries that underpin this mosaic, I found a video demonstrating how to construct a similar pattern and then iterated on that method until I was able to recreate the entire mosaic with only a compass and straightedge. The use of unit based measurement is intentionally omitted from this process in order to explore the idealized mathematical relationships that the tools (compass and straightedge) afford.
This precedent study was self-initiated.
Interior Design, Precedent Study
