helaman ferguson sculpture: Invisible Handshake II

Commission:

by Galman Lepow Associates, on behalf of Merck Pharmaceutical, for Building Five in Upper Gwnydd, Pennsylvania

Base platform:

a 120" diameter hyperbolic disk of a checkerboard of black and white granite right-angled hyperbolic pentagons, the piece is cut to match and stand on the center black granite pentagon

Availability:

months for a similar large piece

Price:

negotiable, contact the sculptor directly

Dimensions:

110" x 60" x 60"

Date:

2002

Material:

Impala black, south african witwaterstrand black granite, this stone is very close to a diorite

Special Engraving:

Handshake II, the artists formulation of triply punctured tori

Weight:

12,500 lbs

Creation or Conception Date:

1999

2002

Helaman Ferguson, "Sculpture Inspired by Alfred Gray" Annals of Global Analysis and Geometry, Volume 18, 2000, pages 341-345, Five figures.

Helaman Ferguson, Kepler Elliptic Curves and Minimal Surface Sculptures of the Planets, Proceedings of the Alfred Gray Memorial Congress on Homogeneous Spaces, Riemannian Geometry, Special Metrics, Symplectic Manifolds and Topology, 18-23 September 2000, Bilbao, Viscaya, Spain, Contemporary Mathematics, American Mathematical Society, Volume 288, 2001, pages 39-57, 10 figures.

Eugene L. Meyer, Sculptor Solves Massive Problem, Washington Post, Metro Section, Friday, January 3rd, 2003.

Lisa Speckhardt, Art in the Equation, Landscape Architecture, ASLA, May 2003, page 10.