Stoicheia [ELEMENTS] is a twelve-sided, four-foot diameter, 2,200 LED art installation 
built in 2016, in Portland, OR. Based on one of the five Platonic Solids and named after the most famous math book ever written, it is an homage to the earliest Greek thinkers and mathematicians. Each side is unique and depicts the iconography of one of the Twelve Olympians, the main gods of the Ancient Greek pantheon.
“Digital stained-glass”, the images are static, but the colors are dynamic. Controlled by custom software, what you see is always changing. The algorithm is random; the colorful patterns will never repeat. Each face of Stoicheia [ELEMENTS] is unique; it was designed so that it can be enjoyed from all angles with people standing and sitting around it and lying beneath it.
Long ago a greek philosopher by the name of Plato discovered 5 shapes whose faces are made entirely of identical normal polygons (equilateral triangle, square and pentagon). He theorized, in his dialogue, that each solid represented one of the “classical elements”: earth, air, water, fire, and aether. The 12-sided dodecahedron, is one of the Platonic Solids and according to Plato it represents the ‘aether,’ A postulated medium for the propagation of light.
Some time later a book was written by Euclid titled “Elements“, it is the oldest, most successful publication in mathematics. It is still taught in middle and high school. Within it are the axioms of Euclidean geometry, which describe the shape, size, relative position of figures in multi-dimensional space. Without geometry houses, bridges and the world we know could not be designed and built. And without geometry we could not create such art.
The imagery seen on the surface is that of the Ancient Greek gods. The Twelve Olympians to be exact, the main gods of the Ancient Greek pantheon. The Greek word for “elements” is “Στοιχεῖα,” or “Stoicheia”.
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See OPB ArtBeat and watch the video about the 2017 Portland Winter Light Festival. They came to the lab and did an interview.