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                           is a catalog of heuristic design explorations that examine the nuanced formal and material interactions between people, objects, and environments
These interactive puzzles are a series of poplar blocks that have been split into angled forms. Part puzzle, part fidget toy, and part sculpture - the forms can be twisted, separated, and offset. Constructed from solid poplar and neodymium magnets, these tactile forms have satisfying swiveling, clicking connections that encourage players not just to solve the puzzles, but to stack, fidget and twist the blocks into sculptural shapes. Each block can be dissasssembled and mixed up with the objective of the puzzle to properly reorient and reassemble all the separate components into a continuous solid block.  







Purple Acai

“Whoever ... proves [her] point and demonstrates the prime truth geometrically should be believed by all the world, for there we are captured.” (Albrecht Durer)

Cuts: Non-overlapping, irregular angle
Material: Poplar, Neodymium
Dimensions: 2” x 2” x 6”
Pieces: 7




Purple Plum

“A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.” (Frank Herbert)

Cuts: Non-overlapping, irregular angle
Material: Poplar, Neodymium
Dimensions: 2” x 2” x 6”
Pieces: 6




Red Apple

“Seeing is forgetting the name of the thing one sees” (Robert Irwin)

Cuts: Non-overlapping, irregular angle
Material: Poplar, Neodymium
Dimensions: 2” x 2” x 6”
Pieces: 6




Red Tomato

“Beauty is always the result of an accident.” (Cocteau)

Cuts: Non-overlapping, irregular angle
Material: Poplar, Neodymium
Dimensions: 2” x 2” x 6”
Pieces: 6





Blue Huckleberry

“Since the world drifts into delirium, we must adopt a delirious point of view.” (Baudrillard)

Cuts: Overlapping, 45° angle
Material: Poplar, Neodymium
Dimensions: 2” x 2” x 6”
Pieces: 5




Blue Raspberry

“Art is the big door, but real life is a lot of small doors that you must pass through to create something new.” (Jean Giraud)

Cuts: Overlapping, irregular angle
Material: Poplar, Neodymium
Dimensions: 2” x 2” x 6”
Pieces: 7




Green Guava

“Strip away meaning and language and the heavenly kingdom begins to reveal itself.” (Chris Arkenberg)

Cuts: Non-overlapping, irregular angle
Material: Poplar, Neodymium
Dimensions: 2” x 2” x 6”
Pieces: 5




Green Kiwi

“I do not envy people who think they have a complete explanation of the world, for the simple reason that they are obviously wrong.” (Salam Rushdie)

Cuts: Non-overlapping, irregular angle
Material: Poplar, Neodymium
Dimensions: 2” x 2” x 6”
Pieces: 5





Orange Papaya

“Near and far, outside and inside, like the surfaces of a nautilus, will be reversible terms for a sense of hidden treasure.” (Christopher Middleton)

Cuts: Overlapping, 45° angle
Material: Poplar, Neodymium
Dimensions: 2” x 2” x 6”
Pieces: 5




Orange Melon

“Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.” (Dr. Seuss)

Cuts: Non-overlapping, 45° angle
Material: Poplar, Neodymium
Dimensions: 2” x 2” x 6”
Pieces: 4



Yellow Lemon

“Our lives today are not conducted in linear terms. They are much more quantified; a stream of random events is taking place.” (J.G. Ballard)

Cuts: Overlapping, irregular angle
Material: Poplar, Neodymium
Dimensions: 2” x 2” x 6”
Pieces: 6




Plain Pear

“My life seemed to be a series of events and accidents. Yet when I look back I see a pattern.” (Benoît Mandelbrot)

Cuts: Overlapping, irregular angle
Material: Poplar, Neodymium
Dimensions: 2” x 2” x 6”
Pieces: 6





Sweet Pear 1

“Nothing is yet in its true form” (C. S. Lewis)

Cuts: Parallel, horizontal
Material: Poplar, dowel
Dimensions: 2” x 2” x 6”
Pieces: 6




Sweet Pear 2

“I secretly think reality exists so we can speculate about it” (Slavoj Žižek)

Cuts: Parallel, horizontal
Material: Poplar, dowel
Dimensions: 2” x 2” x 6”
Pieces: 6




Sour Pear 1

“Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know” (Michel de Montaigne)

Cuts: Parallel, 30° angle
Material: Poplar, dowel
Dimensions: 2” x 2” x 6”
Pieces: 6




Sour Pear 2

“The problem seems to be how to connect without connecting” (Alice Aycock)

Cuts: Parallel, 30° angle
Material: Poplar, dowel
Dimensions: 2” x 2” x 6”
Pieces: 6





Spicy Pear 1

“The randomness to which mutation testifies is implicit in the very idea of pattern, for only against the background of nonpattern can pattern emerge” (Katherine Hayles)

Cuts: Offset, 30° angle
Material: Poplar, dowel
Dimensions: 2” x 2” x 6”
Pieces: 6



Spicy Pear 2

“The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform” (Ada Lovelace)

Cuts: Offset, 30° angle
Material: Poplar, dowel
Dimensions: 2” x 2” x 6”
Pieces: 6



Twixt

“Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success". (Henry Ford)

Shapes: 4 types 
Material: PLA, Basswood
Dimensions: 3” x 3” x 3”
Pieces: 16




Tanglo

"Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently" (Henry Ford)

Shapes: 7 types 
Material: PLA, Basswood
Dimensions: 1.5” x 1.5” x 1.5”
Pieces: 14




Borage Triangle

“I cannot understand you, tis because you lean over my meaning’s edge and fee, a dizziness of the things I have not said.” (Trumbull Stickney)

Shape: Triangle
Placement: Center
Division: 90° Grid
Dimensions: 6” x 6”
Pieces: 28



Indigo Triangle

“Experience isn’t interesting until it begins to repeat itself - in fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience” (Elizabeth Bowen)

Shape: Triangle
Placement: Center
Division: Offset Grid
Dimensions: 6” x 6”
Pieces: 29




“Adventure is just bad planning.” (Roald Amundsen)

Shape: Triangle
Placement: Center
Division: Offset Grid
Dimensions: 6” x 6”
Pieces: 29



Mustard Triangle

“Experience is a private, very largely speechless affair.” (James Baldwin)

Shape: Triangle
Placement: Edge
Division: 90° Grid
Dimensions: 6” x 6”
Pieces: 28



Dianthus Triangle

“In the world’s structure dream loosens individuality like a bad tooth.” (Walter Benjamin)

Shape: Triangle
Placement: Edge
Division: 90° Grid
Dimensions: 6” x 6”
Pieces: 28


Bergamot Triangle

“Reality is as thin as paper and betrays with all its cracks its imitative character” (Bruno Schulz)

Shape: Triangle
Placement: Corner
Division: 90° Grid
Dimensions: 6” x 6”
Pieces: 28



Mint Triangle

“My stubborn childish life that moves only, Toward an eternal aspiration for vague things.” (Valery Larbaud)

Shape: Triangle
Placement: 45° Center
Division: 45° Grid
Dimensions: 6” x 6”
Pieces: 32



Vervain Triangle

“We cannot withdraw our cards from the game. Were we as silent and mute as stones, our very passivity would be an act.” (Jean-Paul Sartre)

Shape: Triangle
Placement: 45° Center
Division: 90° Grid
Dimensions: 6” x 6”
Pieces: 32



Chicory Triangle


“Mornings, drink the dew from the magnolias; Evenings, eat the petals dropped from the crysanthemum.” (Yukio Mishima)

Shape: Triangle
Placement: Rotated
Division: 90° Grid
Dimensions: 6” x 6”
Pieces: 31



Sage Triangle

“The unknown is an abstraction; the known, a desert; but what is half-known, half-seen, is the perfect breeding ground for desire and hallucination.” (Juan José Saer)

Shape: Triangle
Placement: Rotated
Division: 90° Grid
Dimensions: 6” x 6”
Pieces: 31



Sage Square

“That the green has no “weight”, yet weight (gravity) is what shapes the piece.” (Richard Tuttle)

Shape: Square
Placement: Center
Division: 90° Grid
Dimensions: 6” x 6”
Pieces: 32



Oregano Square

“We do not see things as they are, we see them as we are.” (Anais Nin)

Shape: Square
Placement: Center
Division: 45° Grid
Dimensions: 6” x 6”
Pieces: 36


Peony Square


“We suffer more in our imagination more often than in reality.” (Seneca)

Shape: Square
Placement: Center
Division: Rotated Grid
Dimensions: 6” x 6”
Pieces: 36



Borage Square

“The squirming facts exceed the squamous mind” (Wallace Stevens)

Shape: Square
Placement: Offset
Division: 90° Grid
Dimensions: 6” x 6”
Pieces: 27



Dianthus Square

“The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.” (Frank Lloyd Wright)

Shape: Square
Placement: Center
Division: Rotated Grid
Dimensions: 6” x 6”
Pieces: 36



Lavender Square

“That there should be a reality hidden behind appearances is, after all, quite possible; that language might render such a thing would be an absurd hope.” (Emil Cioran)

Shape: Square
Placement: Corner
Division: 90° Grid
Dimensions: 6” x 6”
Pieces: 27



Geranium Square


“It lies in the nature of things that the many enter into complex unity.” (Alfred North Whitehead)

Shape: Square
Placement: Corner
Division: 45° Grid
Dimensions: 6” x 6”
Pieces: 32



Mustard Square

“When grown people speak of the innocence of children, they don’t really know what they mean.” (William Faulkner)

Shape: Square
Placement: 45° Center
Division: 90° Grid
Dimensions: 6” x 6”
Pieces: 32



Basil Square

“I still believe in abstraction, but now I know that one ends with abstraction, not starts with it.” (Alexander Stepanov)

Shape: Square
Placement: 45° Center
Division: 45° Grid
Dimensions: 6” x 6”
Pieces: 32



Indigo Square

“Wherever we are, what we hear is mostly noise. When we ignore it, it disturbs us. When we listen to it, we find it fascinating.” (John Cage)

Shape: Square
Placement: 45° Offset
Division: 90° Grid
Dimensions: 6” x 6”
Pieces: 31



Allium Square

“The ‘paradox’ is only a conflict between reality and your feeling of what reality ‘ought to be’” (Richard Feynman)

Shape: Square
Placement: Rotated Offset
Division: 90° Grid
Dimensions: 6” x 6”
Pieces: 30



Chicory Square

“Unknown, Incomprehensible, whatever you choose to call it, call; But leave it vague as airy space, dark in its darkness mystical.” (Richard Francis Burton)

Shape: Square
Placement: Rotated Offset
Division: 90° Grid
Dimensions: 6” x 6”
Pieces: 30



Mint Square

“Art is the big door, but real life is a lot of small doors that you must pass through to create something new.” (Jean Giraud)

Shape: Square
Placement: Rotated Offset
Division: 90° Grid
Dimensions: 6” x 6”
Pieces: 30



Bergamot Square

“In so far as the learner was in Error, and now receives the Truth and with it the condition for understanding it, a change takes place within him like the change from non-being to being.” (Søren Kierkegaard)

Shape: Square
Placement: Rotated Offset
Division: Rotated Grid
Dimensions: 6” x 6”
Pieces: 32


Lavander Hexagon

“The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity. (Douglas Horton)

Shape: Hexagon
Placement: Center
Division: 90° Grid
Dimensions: 6” x 6”
Pieces: 32



Chicory Hexagon

“The solution often turns out more beautiful than the puzzle.“ (Richard Dawkins)

Shape: Hexagon
Placement: Center
Division: Offset Grid
Dimensions: 6” x 6”
Pieces: 44



Mint Hexagon

“Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things.” (Ray Bradbury)

Shape: Hexagon
Placement: Offset
Division: 90° Grid
Dimensions: 6” x 6”
Pieces: 30



Indigo Hexagon

“Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.” (Charles Mingus)

Shape: Hexagon
Placement: Offset
Division: 90° Grid
Dimensions: 6” x 6”
Pieces: 30


Mint Circle

“The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.” (Marcus Aurelius)

Shape: Hexagon
Placement: Offset
Division: 90° Grid
Dimensions: 6” x 6”
Pieces: 30



Borage Circle

“I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for.” (Georgia O’Keeffe)

Shape: Circle
Placement: Center
Division: 45° Grid
Dimensions: 6” x 6”
Pieces: 36



Lavander Circle

“In nature, light creates the color. In the picture, color creates the light.” (Hans Hofmann)

Shape: Circle
Placement: Center
Division: Offset Grid
Dimensions: 6” x 6”
Pieces: 24



Chicory Circle

“Geometry is moribund. I want a lilt and joy to art.” (Ellsworth Kelly)

Shape: Circle
Placement: Offset
Division: 90° Grid
Dimensions: 6” x 6”
Pieces: 31



Indigo Circle

“All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry.” (Gustave Flaubert)

Shape: Circle
Placement: Edge
Division: 90° Grid
Dimensions: 6” x 6”
Pieces: 31



Sage Cross

“Form is all we have to help us cope with fundamentally chaotic facts and assaults.” (Gerhard Richter)

Shape: Cross
Placement: Center
Division: 90° Grid
Dimensions: 6” x 6”
Pieces: 36



Indigo Cross

“Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can’t see from the center.” (Kurt Vonnegut)

Shape: Cross
Placement: Center
Division: 45° Grid
Dimensions: 6” x 6”
Pieces: 28



Mustard Cross

“I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.” (Confucius)

Shape: Cross
Placement: Center
Division: 45° Grid
Dimensions: 6” x 6”
Pieces: 28




Mint Cross

“Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less.” (Buckminster Fuller)

Shape: Cross
Placement: Diagonal
Division: 90° Grid
Dimensions: 6” x 6”
Pieces: 27



Vervain Cross

“It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.” (Alfred North Whitehead)

Shape: Cross
Placement: Diagonal
Division: 45° Grid
Dimensions: 6” x 6”
Pieces: 32



Borage Cross

“Things separate in order to appear.” (Matthew Sullivan)

Shape: Cross
Placement: Rotated
Division: 90° Grid
Dimensions: 6” x 6”
Pieces: 32


Chicory Cross


“Beauty is boring because it is predictable.” (Umberto Eco)

Shape: Cross
Placement: Rotated
Division: Rotated Grid
Dimensions: 6” x 6”
Pieces: 3


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