Hands and Solids

On this page I will show you the progression and development of an idea. It started with hands and platonic solids. And then I drew the The Archimedean solids because Leonardo drew them. Then I made them soft digitally.

The Archimedean solids represent the ideal world, human perfection, our thoughts. The Archimedean solids are a visual map of what philosophers since the ancient times until now have been trying to reason about. They represent certainty. The hands on the other hand represent us, we are soft in most of the time we are not entirely sure.

A Christmas ornament I made of my Archimedean drawings. Here is a pdf with printable Archimedean Solids: https://www.mirenarhee.art/ornaments.pdf

A series of experiments I called “What Ornaments do when you are not around” on account of producing actual dangling ornaments from my drawings.

Christmas on Saturn. See high quality mp4 here: http://bit.ly/FirstSaturn

Christmas on Saturn II. See a high definition mp4 here: http://bit.ly/OnSaturn

Hands Icosahedron:

Pen and ink drawings:

NYE confetti enters the picture. I spent NYE 2020 on Times Square and literally took a confetti bath. It was a memorable visual experience, one that I wanted to replicate in hands.

Hands Times Square NYE 2020 created in the game engine Unity. Watch a high resolution mp4 here: http://bit.ly/mirena2020

Hands Times Square stills:

Hands Electric New York City animation I developed in Unity during the Covid lockdowns:

Interactive real-time simulations with pen and ink drawings using the game engine Unity: