Six

2006

34" Wide x 55" Tall
Acrylic on Board

No Longer Available

This painting is on a board that has Golden Section Dimensions. The Space is broken up into the Golden Section Proportions.

The lower section is filled with numbers (Phi up to 20,000)that are printed onto the board (archival ink).

"Meia duzia," literally translated from Portuguese, means "half dozen."

The black bar with a dot over it is the Mayan glyph for the number Six.

In the upper right corner, two triangles represent 6.

The central motif is a circle with 6 circles around it. If this is about 6, why are there 7 circles? BECAUSE: If you take a circle of any given size and surround it by 6 more circles of the same size, EXACTLY 6 will fit around it, all touching.

Other interesting things about 6, some of which still shows through in the painting, but most of which was painted over:

*6 is the smallest perfect number (a number whose divisors add up to itself 1+2+3=6).

*6 cubed = 3 cubed + 4 cubed + 5 cubed.

*There are 6 strings on a standard guitar.

*Words that mean six: sextet, sestet, sextuplet, hexad, VI, sixer

*Carbon is # 6 on the Elemental Scale

*The honeycomb made by bees has six sides and exactly six of the six-sided shapes (a hexagon) fits around one.

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