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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: David Rickard, Star Gazer, 2014

David Rickard

Star Gazer, 2014
Exploded Star Gazer skyrocket on aluminium
92 x 195 cm
36 1/4 x 76 3/4 in
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Star Gazer is formed by a chance event within an 'ideal form'. A Star Gazer firework ricochets off the faceted interior of an icosahedron. The work refers to Johannes Kepler,...
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Star Gazer is formed by a chance event within an 'ideal form'. A Star Gazer firework ricochets off the faceted interior of an icosahedron. The work refers to Johannes Kepler, a 17th Century mathematician and astronomer that believed he had discovered God’s geometrical plan for the universe (Mysterium Cosmographicum) by determining that the five platonic solids nested inside each other relate proportionally to the orbits of the five know planets - A theory that was relatively inaccurate and later crushed by the discovery of Uranus and Neptune. Unfolding the icosahedron after the rockets detonation, a triangulated star map emerges of an explosive event within the boundaries of an ideal system.
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