Artist: Vandorn Hinnant
Medium: Polychromed wood
Dimensions: 24x 34 x 24 inches

The twelve diamond faces of this rhombic dodecahedron have been transformed into two identical and mirrored halves resulting in two color coded sets of nested isosceles triangles (one brown and one white) whose sides have the ratio known as the Golden Proportion, a.k.a. the Golden Ratio. This surface treatment results in two pairs or sets of four color-coded cones or three-sided pyramids. Each of the four pairs/sets of pyramids consist of one white pyramid and one brown pyramid. I read each of these color coded four pairs of pyramids as an expression of polar opposites (the yin/yang phenomenon). Each pair of pyramids also have orientations that are polarized (i.e. one base of one pyramid is oriented in the exact opposite direction of the opposing pyramid’s base). My color-coding is inspired from many of the polychromed objects from Africa that I witnessed five decades ago during my art studies at my alma mater NC A&T State University.