Finity - Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
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This mathematically themed kinetic sculpture is at the Founders Plaza in front of the Science Museum Oklahoma.
Waymark Code: WM14VBT
Location: Oklahoma, United States
Date Posted: 08/26/2021
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A new, kinetic and interactive art sculpture is outside the Science Museum Oklahoma. It is a phenomenal representation of the five shapes in nature that have equal angles and edge lengths. The mirrored stainless steel reflects so well whatever is within its range. Take a photo of the top shape, and then zoom in. The reflection is outstanding! The piece is 25 feet tall.
Text on plaque:
Tom Shannon
(American, b. 1947)
Finity
Mirrored Stainless Steel
Tom Shannon 2020
Science Museum Oklahoma
Loan from the Kirkpatrick Family Fund
Text on second plaque:
Finity. A finite set.
The five polyhedrons displayed in this unique sculpture represent the only shapes in nature that have equal angles and edge lengths. Some consider these five regular shapes to be the key in the development of geometry and mathematics, the disciplines that underlie all of Western science.
What better symbol to welcome visitors to Science Museum Oklahoma?
Tom Shannon was commissioned by the Kirkpatrick Family Fund to create this sculpture for Science Museum Oklahoma. Finity, an interactive, hands-on sculpture featuring five spinning polyhedrons, stands 25 feet tall and is being loaned to the Museum to honor its founder John E. Kirkpatrick.
Greek philosopher Plato connected the five polyhedrons that make up the sculpture - the cube, octahedron, icosahedron, tetrahedron, and dodecahedron - to the five classical elements of his time:
Tetrahedron - fire
Octahedron - air
Cube - earth
Icosahedron - water
Dodecahedron - cosmos
The title, Finity, refers to the fact that one can mathematically prove that these five shapes are the only ones nature allows to have equal angles and edge lengths. It is a finite set.
Title of Piece: Finity
Artist: Tom Shannon
Material/Media: Mirrored Stainless Steel
Date of Creation or Placement: August 2021
Location (specific park, transit center, library, etc.): Science Museum Oklahoma
Web link(s) to YouTube or other video: [Web Link]
Web link(s) for additional information: Not listed
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