Can’t help but post this beautiful octagonal star design by Mélisande*:
She calls this piece “Stars, Flower and Octagons”. It’s an extension of a design she was exploring in December, based on an irregular negative-space octagonal star – the shape created when you connect lines from all four corners of a square to the midpoints along the sides.
She further details the origins of this shape via some geometrical explanations on this flickr post:
It has been used quite a bit historically, including this Moorish mosque (now a church) ceiling in Toledo, Spain. (Image used under CC license permission from albTotxo’s flickr photostream.)
And of course I would be remiss not to mention Mélisande’s new blog, starting 1/1/2008!
I’d be hard pressed to find a nicer person out there. She has this to say about her art:
I’m not claiming my art to be only a product of my own genius, nor have I proprietarian pretentions on it : many of my ideas actually come from friends of mine and I’m happy when someone else find my work inspirational. It isn’t origami until you share it, according to my friend Philip Chapman-Bell.
Art is a way to abolish time, distance, and a consolation to our mortality.
Congratulations on your new blog, my friend, and I look forward to reading more about your creations.
For all of you out there, С новым годом, Happy New Year, Bonne Année, Feliz Año Nuevo, and prost Neujahr! May this new year of 2008 bring interesting times and good luck to all of us.
-Eric Gjerde
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