Solid Geometric Anomaly Location Gauntlet
2007
Sold (Private Collection)
During the 1800’s, many pioneering mathematicians theorised that extra planes of existence may lie within our own reality, unseen or felt by our feeble human cerebrum. It was frowned upon to attempt to understand such esoteric ideas, especially during the age of enlightenment which had brought forth a myriad of technological advances. Tactile mechanical break throughs were heralded, whilst metaphysical ideas were shunned and belittled.
By 1782, these theories became reality. By constructing various objects from simple paper, a handful of British mathematicians proved the existence of such a reality. Known as “the plane without a surface” this reality was shown to be accessible through the construction of complex forms, based on bizarre geometric patterns.
Solid geometry, the name for the geometry of three-dimensional Euclidean space, gained a fourth dimensional understanding – and the paper folding was soon abandoned, tempting the minds of those who had shunned this odd research.
With hard math and technical skill, the “Solid Geometric Anomaly Location Gauntlet” was born. A device worn on the hand and forearm, acting as an extension of the wearer. The glove bore four sensitive probes which teased at the fibres of space time, searching for the attraction between the geometric forms housed in the spheroid engine held in place at the wrist.
Once located, the probes could widen the void between the anomaly and the geometric forms, allowing safe passage to the “plane without a surface” – a place unknown even now to science – for all those involved, the mathematicians, the inventors – even the investors – disappeared, leaving their families and belongings behind.
No one ever heard of them again – and no one dared make sense of the hundreds of folded paper objects left scattered about the floor of the laboratory, the nonsensical notes that plastered the walls, of a science unknown to the most talented of scholars…