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The Dodecahedron Series is a collection of paintings on pentagonal panels, taking cues from this shape made of 12 regular pentagons. Dodecahedrons are one of the five Platonic Solids, and it signified for Plato both the notion of the actual physical shape of the cosmos, as well as the philosophical notion of cosmos. So far I've completed 7 of them and am working on a few more...

 

 

 

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