See/Saw

Each in this trio of interrelated optical objects contains a secret.

The design of these geometric objects suspends a two-for-one in each.  Their cross-section articulation produces a geometric object with mass that carries weight when hand-held.  Their digitally-fabricated aesthetic also conceals another geometry contained within – an image that appears only as the containing mass is rotated and optically disappears.  A different orientation to each object reveals this ‘other.’  A solid cube hides within a sphere, a voided sphere is nestled within a pyramid, and a pyramid in profile is buried within a cube.  They have to be played with, tumbled, to see (and then not see) what you saw.

The drawn representations of See/Saw appear to blush as they rotate, revealing something hidden.

Project Team: Design: Megan Panzano with Jihyun Ro, Adam Strobel; Fabrication: Bill Bancroft + Wentworth Institute of Technology Additive Manufacturing Laboratory, where a prototype is exhibited as an exemplary object