CONTINUUM columns 2022-2023

The CONTINUUM modules were a result of a playful instant in 3d space. Originally a totem-like design was divided in two parts, and soon the idea came to create a geometrical shape that self-connect to itself, meaning the bottom is the precise counter-piece of the top of the same item.

Soon I started bending these modules (the “weak” column appeared). Then the “wobbly” one. But I realized that there was then a need of two different modules to interconnect, to repeat the cycle of repetition. Because a degree of dimensional differentiation resulted from the bending process, six of them in total would form an entire circle and the last top would again precisely connect to the bottom of the first. Strangely these results appeared like a historical evolution to the shapes created. It might be identified as “classical”, “baroque” and “rococo”, as characters of increasing complexity.

Then stretching, twisiting, tapering, were other operations, that gave very interesting results. But the more complexity the shape reaches, the more different modules were required to complete the cycle.