Neoplatonic Solid

Hand carved sculpture from locally sourced Plum wood.
Carved and oiled, 56 x 23 x 27 cm

The work's title wants to pay tribute to the ancient Greek philosophy of Platonism, named after Plato, who again was a student of Socrates. However, the work itself wants to add a more contemporary and updated perspective on what is called "Platonic Solids".
These regularly geometrical volumes were constructed by Plato in order to give a visual model of the five elements, of which he was convinced the universe would be built from.

A couple decades later, in 245 AD, an Egyptian philosopher named Plotinus would found a philosophy school based on his own contemporary interpretation of Platonism.
This new, revolutionary school had a massive influence on philosophy and theology until the middle ages across different continents.

As the Neoplatonics did not apply any geometrical models to visualise their viewpoints, I created the work "Neoplatonic Solid" to express my own, very subjective interpretation of how I think such a philosophical object could possibly look like.