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On The Six-Cornered Snowflake, Jackson Hescock
On The Six-Cornered Snowflake, Jackson Hescock
Bachelor of Fine Arts Senior Papers
On the Six-Cornered Snowflake, named after Johannes Kepler’s 1611 essay on geometrically covering surfaces, is both the title of both my final thesis work and essay. Beginning with an inquiry into the nature of hand-made object as intrinsically valuable, my earlier sculptural work surrounding quilting is broken down and considered as a form of reverence for the American object. This is partly achieved through a comparison to traditional Japanese packing techniques and how my own assembly mirrors and converses with the graceful and sensitive packing of Japanese hand-made goods. Early 20th-century flight experiments are also hand-made objects of …